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BOARD BACKS REQUEST FOR OFFICERS IN SCHOOLS Sheriff’s Office seeks approval,funding for 13 new deputies to bolster security ZACK HOOPES ■ Staff Writer (Feb. 22, 2013) Mirroring a demand that has been sweeping the nation since the killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the Worcester County Board of

Education voted unanimously on Tuesday to support a Worcester County Sheriff’s Office request for funding to place armed officers in all of the county’s schools.

The move follows the completion last month of extensive

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safety audits of each of the county’s school facilities by school safety committees and a task force of local law enforcement representatives.

Under the recommendation from school administrators, the sheriff’s office will be asking the county commissioners to include it its fiscal year 2014 budget the additional money needed to hire and train 13 new

School Resource Officers, who will cover all 14 of the county’s institutions. Because Snow Hill Middle School and the Cedar Chapel Special School share a campus, one officer will cater to both schools.

According to Col. Doug Dods of the sheriff’s office, first-year costs per new officer — including salary, equipment, and training — average $120,989. Second-year

costs come to $63,436 per officer.

The recommendation also supports a number of smaller capital and infrastructure improvements to increase school security, with an estimated price tag of $218,500.

“The sheriff’s department has submitted a budget to fund the 13 officers,” Assistant Superintendent for Administration See COUNTY on Page 6A

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(Feb. 22, 2013) Worcester County farmers will not have the opportunity to carve out seven residential lots on their agricultural property, as opposed to the five lots they are currently allowed, but it turns out that most farmers apparently do not care.

Tuesday’s decision by the Worcester County Commissioners to reject a proposed increase in farm development rights was because so few farmers are even creating such lots.

The commissioners voted 5-2 to defeat a bill that would have increased the allowable number of lots in a minor subdivision, which had been a response to General Assembly’s passage last of Senate bill 236, known as the Septic Bill.

That measure enabled counties to amend their definition of minor subdivision to allow up to seven lots. It also pushed them to adopt maps showing which areas would be served by public

(Feb. 22, 2013) A former Stephen Decatur Middle School teacher was sentenced to state prison after admitting Tuesday that she stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Worcester County Teachers Association for gambling.

“I knew it was wrong,” 58-year-old Denise Inez Denise Inez Owens told Owens Judge Dale Cathell in Circuit Court in Snow Hill after pleading guilty to one count of a theft scheme that continued from April 3, 2006 through March 25, 2009.

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This young harp seal was spotted resting on the beach in the north end of town Tuesday morning, apparently in good health and condition. A highly migratory species, the harp seal typically ranges throughout its breeding grounds in Canada, but according to reports from a number of oceanographic and environmental groups, the animal’s range appears to have extended in the past few years, stretching down to the Delmarva coast. Theories as to the cause include population surges due to changes in food supply, as well as the possible effect of global warming on ice floes where seals often reside. Although cuddly in appearance, it is both dangerous and illegal to approach a seal; federal statues make it a crime for a person to harass a protected marine mammal, and seals are known to bite if they feel threatened.

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Race for the Cure organizers hope to raise $435k in resort Cold temperatures, wind couldn’t deter participants in inaugural Komen event LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor 2012 Race for the Cure

Mandes, the 2013 Eastern Shore race and development coordinator.

This year’s event is scheduled for Sunday, April 21, and will include a 5k run and walk and 1-mile family fun walk. “It’s a great weekend for runners or walkers, singles, couples or families to come out and enjoy Ocean City during the off season. We have a great race route, and awesome activities planned.”

A press conference to kickoff the 2013 event took place Feb. 15, at Seacrets on 49th Street. The goal this year is 5,000 participants and to raise $435,000.

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Unfortunately, unfavorable weather conditions on April 22 kept many participants at bay, but the Komen Maryland Ocean City Race for the Cure still raised a whopping $349,150 by way of registration fees, donations and cash sponsorships.

Organizers initially hoped to generate $241,000.

“Last year’s inaugural race was great.

The city worked with Komen Maryland to work through the processes to ensure our first Susan G. Komen Ocean City Race for the Cure was a huge success even with the pouring rain,” said Margo

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Schools to press county for teacher raises; health costs still unknown ZACK HOOPES ■ Staff Writer (Feb. 22, 2013) The Worcester County Board of Education will be requesting a $1.5 million increase in its level of funding from the county commissioners for the upcoming budget year, largely to pay for a second round of teacher pay raises to compensate for the salary stagnation that took effect from 2009 to 2012.

The results of the schools systems’ annual parent surveys, and allocation recommendations from individual schools’ parent advisory groups, show “a strong desire to maintain our support for outstanding classroom teachers,” said Superintendent of Schools Dr. Jerry Wilson at this week’s board meeting.

The request will allow the schools to grant step-scale pay raises, based on experience, to eligible staff. In Worcester County, teachers’ pay scales are divided into 16 steps, each equating roughly to one year of experience. After step 16, pay increases cease to be structured. For nonteacher support staff, a 12-step scale is used.

The funding also allows for all school employees – even those who have advanced beyond the step-scale – to receive a one percent cost-of-living raise.

When the worldwide financial crisis hit at the end of 2008, local governments were already into the 2009 fiscal year’s

budget, which began that July. For the three budget periods after that – fiscal years 2010, 2011, and 2012 – Worcester County enforced, as did many jurisdictions, a wide-scale pay freeze.

Only in this past fiscal year 2013, whose budget was decided on last spring, did the county grant a $1.2 million allocation for teacher pay increases, although the board had requested $1.9 million.

This was largely offset, however, by a drop in per-pupil funding of more than $850,000 for FY13 because of decreased enrollment.

Although quasi-independent from the rest of the county government, Worcester’s school system receives about 80 percent of its revenue from appropriations by the county commissioners, who have final authority over its budget.

Under Maryland law, however, county governments must contribute the same amount of money per-student to their schools each year to cover teaching costs and in-classroom expenditures. This policy is known as the “Maintenance of Effort” formula, and counties face steep cuts in state funding if they go below the established MoE level.

With a marginal increase in enrollment, the county is expected to give a minimum of $23,186 more this year, according to the school system’s Chief Financial Officer Vince Tolbert.

One of the largest variables in the

school budget, however, will not be entirely resolved for at least another two months. Employee health insurance rates are expected to rise roughly five percent, which would raise costs by $574,000, according to Tolbert.

“Those rates won’t be finalized until May and they could turn out to be more, could turn out to be less,” Tolbert said.

Last year, the school system saw a windfall savings of $1.3 million after premiums fell 5.8 percent, largely out of good experience credit because fewer school employees filed major insurance claims.

The proposed budget for the 2014 fiscal year also includes a further $400,000 in one-time costs, Tolbert said. Of that, $100,000 is dedicated to conducting a feasibility study for the renovation or reconstruction of Showell Elementary School, which the board has identified as the next priority for major capital improvement after Snow Hill High School, where work is scheduled to begin by the end of this year.

The rest of the one-time costs are for technology improvements, namely upgrading the district’s broadband system, its payroll and finance database, and purchasing tablet computers and “cloud” data servers for classroom use.

Other major financial changes, according to Tolbert, will be a $366,000 increase in county revenue to cover

teachers’ pensions – the burden of pension funding was partially shifted this year from the state to the counties – as well as a $417,000 increase in state funding to cover services for special education and students living in poverty. In the latter case, there are more students this year who qualify. The budget also allows for a two percent increase in bus contractors’ rates.

Tolbert is also projecting $703,000 in savings for FY14 over FY13. Much of this is from reduced costs in physical materials such as books and papers, which have been replaced by computers and electronic resources.

But more than half of the savings results from early retirement incentives.

The county has encouraged more experienced and costly staff to retire and replaced them with new, lower-earning employees, a point driven home at the end of the meeting, when Assistant Superintendent for Administration Louis Taylor read for the board’s approval the names of several dozen retiring teachers and staff.

“We’ve had a lot of people here [on the departure list] who are veteran employees,” said board President Bob Rothermel. “I do worry about brain drain. But I trust that we’ll be working hard to recruit qualified people … so that we have a whole new stable of beloved teachers 20 or 30 years from now.”

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City sees good and bad effects of economy, plan changes on retiree trusts Five-year gains still behind projections after ’08 slump; ’12 investment earnings up ZACK HOOPES ■ Staff Writer (Feb. 22,2013) With employee benefits having been a hot political topic over the past two years – and already acknowledged to be the key issue in the current contract negotiations between the city and its public safety unions – actuarial reports of the city’s retiree pension and health care funds for the final quarter of 2012 indicate that some of the anticipated benefits and drawbacks of recent plan changes may already be coming to fruition.

Consultants from Morgan Stanley, which manages the investment of the city’s employee benefits trust funds, presented the city’s Board of Pension Trustees with their quadrennial report this week, indicating a strong showing for the city’s investments over the past year.

The general employees’ fund gained 9.72 percent over the year, and the public safety employees’ fund 9.64 percent. The employee healthcare fund gained 8.91 percent, and gains for the current year are on target.

“The markets are really off to a great

start and your portfolio is participating in that fully,” said Morgan Stanley’s Michael Holycross.

Since 1991, the city’s public safety employees have had a separate fund from the city’s general employees, due to the different retirement norms for public safety work. General employees pay five percent of their salary each week into the pension fund, with an identical match from the city. After 30 years of service, they become fully vested, meaning they will receive the maximum post-retirement benefit of 50 percent of their salary.

Retiring earlier provides a somewhat lower payout.

For public safety employees, the vesting term is 25 years, and the benefit is 60 percent of salary, but they must contribute 8 percent of their pay while they work.

Despite this year’s excellent performance, none of the three plans have enough funding to fully cover their projected expenses in pension and insurance payouts – few municipal governments’ plans are fully funded.

Much of the reason for this is that the future value projections for the funds assume an investment return of 7.5 percent. While this was a normal – or even somewhat low – average rate at the time the plans were designed, the recent economic recession has reversed that dramatically.

Further, no new employees are paying into the funds, since they were controversially closed out two years ago in favor of individual 401(a) packages.

Even with this year’s excellent performances factored in, the average rate of gain over the past five years has only been 1.83 percent for the general employees’ fund, and 1.84 percent for the public safety fund.

The medical benefits fund has fared better, but only because it was conceived later; the Government Accounting Standards Board only began to require a separate retiree health benefits fund in 2009. As such, the health fund has made 7.4 percent since inception, but still only covers about 20 to 25 percent of its projected future costs.

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Louis Taylor said. “These [capital improvements] are things we need to secure funding on as soon as possible.”

In addition to the officers’ presence, the safety plan involves the installation of electronic buzzer entry systems with cameras and two-way intercoms on the front doors of all county schools, as well as the central administration office. The cost of that aspect of the plan is $65,000.

Nine entry systems requiring access cards are also proposed to be installed on the exterior doors of the portable classroom trailers that are used at five of the county’s schools, with a total price tag of $63,000.

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“When it checks your drivers’ license, we’ll also have the opportunity to see if you’re a sex offender, or have other criminal records like that which would show up on your license,” said Steve Price, the schools’ head of transportation and facilities management, who has hence become the county’s de-facto school security coordinator.

The cost for the ID system will be $20,425, plus an additional $5,000 annually for software licensing.

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Another $25,000 is allocated to tint windows at four schools that have parking lots or roads providing a close view into classrooms, and another $20,000 is to be put towards installing oversized planters or traffic bollards in front of six school entrances that are at risk of being rammed by a vehicle.

“The sheriff’s department was very concerned about intrusion by a vehicle in some of our schools,” Price said.

School officials said that the proposed safety budget was a good compromise of common-sense measures that were not overbearing. They had received comments from many parents, they said, some of whom desired more strict security and some who desired less.

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Several parents of county students attended the board meeting, all of whom advocated stronger security measures.

Although side entrances are locked after the school day beings, parent Jacqueline Cutlip asked, “Why the front doors are still open, even now?”

“We’ve still not made a decision on whether we’re going to lock those doors or not,” Taylor said, stressing that manual locks meant staff would have to physically open the doors for each entrant if they were locked.

“We have to make sure we have a practical procedure in order to do that,” said Superintendent of Schools Dr. Jerry Wilson. Having no timely means of access could present an issue for fire and EMS personnel.

Cutlip also questioned why the implementation of the new school deputies was estimated to take until the 20142015 school year.

“That’s what it takes if you’re sending them [officers] to the academy after hiring them right off the street,” he said.

The safety plan and its expenditures will likely be brought before the County Commissioners at their March 5 session for approval.

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County plans new north liquor store and wholesale outlet NANCY POWELL ■ Staff Writer (Feb. 22, 2013) A large liquor store and wholesale outlet will be built near Stephen Decatur High School.

Robert Cowger, director of the Worcester County Department of Liquor Control, wants to consolidate the department’s presence in the northern part of the county and open a Northern Worcester County Liquor Mart on Route 50 approximately a quarter-mile east of Sea Hawk Road.

Bruce Rogers, owner of the property, is proposing to build a 9,840-square-foot strip shopping center to be named Worcester Plaza. He has offered the Department of Liquor Control 4,800 square feet of space there at a cost of $17.50 per square foot, for a total annual cost of $84,000 to be paid monthly at a cost of $7,000.

On Tuesday, the Worcester County Commissioners voted unanimously to approve the lease.

Cowger was unable to attend the meeting so Finance Officer Harold Higgins spoke on his behalf. The importance of having the new building is “location, location, location,” Higgins said.

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County Liquor Mart would be in a new high profile area where it would offer both retail and wholesale operations year round. The new mart would be easier for travelers to see than either the Berlin or West Ocean City marts as they drive on Route 50 to or from Ocean City.

Leases at the Berlin and West Ocean City marts have expired and would have to be renegotiated if the commissioners voted against the new site. They will be closed after creation of the new store.

The department now pays $45,575 yearly for 3,200 square feet of space in West Ocean City and $20,843 for 1,500 square feet of space in Berlin for a total of $66,418.

Although the annual lease of the proposed new liquor mart would cost more, the increased sales volume there would generate more than compensate for the higher rent, Cowger wrote in a letter to Gerry Mason, the county’s chief administrative officer.

Higgins also asked the commissioners to increase the discount now offered to licensees from 15 percent to 16 percent.

That would equate to an estimated revenue decrease of approximately $107,000. They approved his request.

The commissioners also voted to approve a name change to Shore Spirits.

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counted for by the time the fund money is needed to pay for retirements.

Additionally, with a long, slow economic recovery looming, investment return rate assumptions have been lowered from 7.5 to 7 percent, and may be required to drop further. With a large percentage of Ocean City’s workforce nearing retirement age, the city may be paying out of a pot whose paper value is overstated.

Fortunately, however, the city has already been able to reduce some of its medical liability through plan changes.

Last spring, the council voted to intro-

duce a high-deductible health plan — as opposed to more expansive PPO plans — that would also come with a city-incentivized Health Savings Account. It also decided to cap any increase to the city’s insurance premium contribution at three percent, to guard against the town taking the lion’s share of future rate increases.

“The reason why the costs are going down is because you made those plan changes for new hires,” Kay Moran of Bolton Partners, the city’s insurance advisor, told the trustees. “Instead of estimating based on market trend, you’re using a flat three percent, and that eliminates any potential fluctuation.”

The city’s premiums have also been going down, due to its insurers suffering fewer claims from town employees.

“There were a lot of reasons for that, mainly because we’ve been altering plan designs and we put in the high-deductible health plan,” Moran said.

At the same time, one of the arguments made by city officials and employees against the plan changes – that providing more individual and less group benefits would jeopardize employee retention – seems to also be occurring. While the number of current general employees eligible for post-employment benefits dropped by 30, the

number of retirees using the plan did not correspondingly increase. In fact, it decreased by two.

“Which suggests,” Moran said. “that the older, longer service – and more expensive – employees stayed, and the younger employees were the ones that left.”

On the public safety side, active eligibility increased by 42 employees, and retirees by eight.

“So you added more public safety, and they’re under that new rule,” Moran said.

“That increased your liability, but not as much as would’ve been if you hadn’t made that plan change.”

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Planet Maze is hosting an event from 35 p.m. and Skate for the Cure at the Carousel Hotel from 5-7 p.m. Proceeds from these events go to Komen Maryland.”

Seventy-five percent of the net funds raised during the second annual Komen Maryland Ocean City Race for the Cure will go to local and statewide programs that offer breast health services, from screening and treatment to support. The remaining 25 percent will fund research grants at institutions across the country

to support Komen for the Cure’s mission to save lives, empower people, ensure quality care for all and energize science to find the cures.

To date, Komen Maryland has provided more than $35 million dollars to support the fight against breast cancer.

Since 1998, Eastern Shore programs have received more than $3 million in funding from Komen Maryland for services to help those affected by breast cancer and their families.

Komen Maryland is currently accepting event sponsorships. Contact mman-

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Businesses can also get involved by participating in the “Paint the Town Pink” campaign and decorate their establishments in support of the Komen Maryland Ocean City Race for the Cure.

Participation is open to all Ocean City restaurants, hotels, motels and businesses. The winner will receive a “SeaBoard Business Prize Package,” which includes beachfront advertising between May 24 and June 7 — one 10second advertisement displayed every five minutes running the full length of

the resort beach (a total of 16 beach passes, valued at $1,280). Residents are encouraged to decorate their homes, but they will not be considered for the prize package.

Paint the Town Pink will run April 1219. Judging will take place April 19.

In addition to Paint the Town Pink, restaurants can participate in the “Dine Out for the Cure®” program, April 1221. Restaurant will donate a portion of their sales during that period.

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Ocean City food truck franchise up for bid again ZACK HOOPES ■ Staff Writer (Feb. 22, 2013) Despite the growing popularity in many of America’s larger metropolitan areas of gourmet foodvending trucks, the notion seems to have never caught on outside the more urban districts. In Ocean City, the familiar jingle of the ice cream man has been the only calling of mobile treats for some decades.

But that could change, if one is willing to put up the cash.

Those interested in becoming a roving purveyor of edibles should note that the Town of Ocean City will soon be accepting bids to franchise the rights to mobile food vending, in a slightly altered area of the town, following what appears to be a defaulting on a contract by the previous licensee.

“The code allows ‘vending prepared food from a motor vehicle, to operate in certain public ways of Ocean City,’” said City Clerk Kelly Allmond, who administers the town’s franchise venues. “We get people calling all the time with ideas about selling Greek food, Italian food … it doesn’t have to be ice cream.”

Just as it does with beach equipment stands and taxi medallions, the town periodically auctions off a number of authorizations – in the case of mobile food vendors, just one – to conduct specified,

restricted commercial ventures on public property. These are done under a contract period, which, in the case of the food truck franchisee, is four years.

The franchise gives the vending company the right to operate anywhere within the town north of 18th Street, a restriction put in place some decades ago to protect the Boardwalk commercial strip from unfair competition.

However, this week, council voted to move forward with an ordinance altering the prohibited area to be anywhere south of 27th Street, given the expansion of the Boardwalk in the 1980s. But it was also decided that vending should be opened up to areas west of Baltimore Avenue, even in the city’s southern end.

“We have businesses all over town now,” said Councilman Dennis Dare.

“The town’s changed since the ordinance was written and I can still see [restricting] that block by the ocean, but as it is, this would prohibit the ice cream truck from going around Mallard Island or the Robin Drive area.”

“Those are residential-type areas where you typically see ice cream trucks going,” concurred Mayor Rick Meehan.

According to Allmond, the previous vending truck contractor - JSJ Venture – first won the franchise in January of 2007 for a bid price of $406,000. After two seasons of vending, however, the company requested that its annual pay-

ment be reduced from $101,500 to $80,000, citing poor profitability. The city agreed, and JSJ continued for another two seasons before re-bidding in 2011, and winning at a much-reduced price of $261,200 for four years.

After two seasons on that contract, however, it appears that the vendor no longer wishes to operate the franchise.

“The party that previously held our vehicle vending franchise has forfeited, and we are in the process of going out to rebid the franchise,” said Meehan. “This change [in prohibited area] will be part of the packet that goes out so that the areas where the vendor is allowed to work will be clear to the bidders.”

Meehan also suggested that the council authorize a debarment hearing to prevent the forfeiting vendor from bidding on the franchise when it is re-advertised.

Councilman Brent Ashley questioned if – given the city’s concern about protecting other merchants, and the apparent low profitability of the venture – the food truck franchise should not just be eliminated entirely.

Since the summer is fast approaching, “that might happen” by default, Councilman Joe Mitrecic said.

City Solicitor Guy Ayres said the town can go ahead and advertise the franchise, in anticipation of passing an ordinance with the changed prohibited operating area at the next regular session.

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Shockley says residential lot allowance could save family farms Continued from Page 1A

sewer or septic systems. The areas would be designated as being in septic tiers, ranging from developments required to be on public sewer to land planned for preservation and conservation.

From January 2008 to June 2001, only 99 lots were subdivided on agricultural property in Worcester County and 88 of those remained vacant as of June 2011, said Commissioner Madison Bunting, who co-sponsored the bill with Commissioner Virgil Shockley.

Bunting said he co-sponsored the bill because of farmers who might need to sell a residential lot for the income. He added, however, that he was not concerned whether a farmer could have five or seven lots on the farm.

Shockley, a chicken farmer, was the most impassioned about the bill, which he said was about economics. The change to allow up to seven residential lots on a farm would ensure the future of farming, one of the county’s two main industries.

“You have people who, because they cannot live on the farm, will not be farmers,” Shockley said. “If you’re going to save farming, you’ve got to have the kids living on the farm.”

Shockley said farming is an expensive endeavor, with combines costing $450,000 and some tractors costing more than $200,000.

“It takes money to be in farming,” he said.

During hard times, a farmer might need to sell a residential lot on his property to remain viable. Allowing up to seven lots would make that possible.

In the past five years, Worcester County has lost 60 chicken houses and Shockley does not want to see more farmers getting out of the industry.

“Think about where your food’s coming from, people,” Shockley said.

Commissioner Merrill Lockfaw, who owns a farm but no longer raises chickens, said he was not in favor of breaking a farm into pieces, as he put it.

“A greater study should have been done on this matter,” said Lockfaw, who added that a change from five to seven lots in a minor subdivision could be considered during the creation of an updated comprehensive plan.

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Commissioners President Bud Church, who also owns one farm and might buy another, said he had “always been a private property rights advocate,” but he saw no need to change the definition of a minor subdivision from five to seven lots. No one, he said, was going “to rush out of here and start building.”

Church said he knew of no farmers who had taken advantage of being able to have five residential lots on their properties.

“Farmers I know don’t want to be in the land development business,” Church said. “And I don’t want my farm cut up.”

Church suggested they take “a reasonable amount of time” and have the new comprehensive plan study the issue.

After hearing comments about the bill from 20 audience members, six of whom opposed the bill, with 14 in favor of it, the

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Even if they had passed the bill, property owners would still be subject to state law that limits the lots to five because Worcester missed the deadline of Dec. 31 to make the change. As of that date, 16 counties had adopted a change allowing up to seven lots.

Delegate Mike McDermott introduced a bill this week that would extend the deadline to July 1, 2013 for counties that had a change in definition of a minor subdivision pending approval by Feb. 1.

Although 16 counties had adopted to change to the definition of minor subdivisions by Dec. 31, only 12 counties had adopted tier maps. Worcester County is one of 12 counties that did not adopt tier maps. The county commissioners have not yet voted on the issue.

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Rep. Harris, McDermott field concerns during town hall event SHEILA R. CHERRY ■ Associate Editor/Bayside Gazette (Feb. 22, 2013) What is frequently overlooked in the debate over curbing gun violence by banning so-called assault rifles, Rep. Andy Harris (R-1st) told attendees last Saturday at a “town hall” meeting on Second Amendment rights and gun safety issues, was the 19,300 deaths a year that result from suicide by handguns.

The primary topic at the event was a discussion on the Firearm Safety Act (SB281), which has been introduced in the Maryland General Assembly at the request of Gov. Martin O’Malley (D), and other proposed gun restrictions being considered on Capitol Hill.

Harris was joined by Delegates Mike McDermott (R-38B) and Charles Otto (R38A) at a standing-room-only event held at the Holiday Inn at 6600 Coastal Hwy. The theme repeated throughout the commentary from both the politicians and audience members seemed to be that the proponents of the proposed gun bans were missing the point.

Harris told the audience Congress tended to make “a whole bunch of laws” that no one would enforce. He said less than 1 percent of gun deaths nationwide resulted from assault weapons. He advocated the root of the problem was an increased need for identifying and treating individuals with violent mental health

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U.S. Rep. Andy Harris (R), Delegate Michael McDermott (R-38B), and Delegate Charles Otto (R38A), hear from Eastern Shore residents during a Feb. 16 town hall event at the Holiday Inn on 66th Street in Ocean City. The legislators and citizens discussed pending federal and state proposals to restrict gun purchases and access in the wake of recent mass shootings across the country.

problems while restricting them from buying firearms. However, the problem with a possible congressional proposal to address that issue, he said, would be that if not carefully drafted it would risk stigmatizing people who seek treatment for either themselves or their loved ones.

Harris added that another issue that should be included in the discussion over gun violence was the “culture of violence” being marketed to children, especially from companies that promote video

games in which children win points for “killing” targets. “How can this not be the front page issue?” he asked, to a round of applause from the audience. He cited a statistic that reported that by the time they are in kindergarten, some American children can see dramatizations of up to 8,000 murders on TV. Harris also expressed doubt that the federal government was the appropriate body to address the gun issue. “The Washington solution is not always the

best local solution,” he said. A gun safety proposal in Wicomico County would be different than one for urban Illinois, he gave as an example, adding that Maryland already had many of the necessary tools in the way it registers firearms.

McDermott, a deputy sheriff, said that he was one of two Republicans on a special work group in the General Assembly with 15 Democratic members. It was interesting, he said, to listen to “folk who know nothing about firearms,” craft bills that would limit the use of firearms. He said the bill included 35 pages of legislation that he called “legal overreach.”

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Yet another individual, Ron Pagano, who identified himself as a gun owner, said he was opposed to an unlimited right to own guns.

But another attendee compared the argument that early constitutionalists did not anticipate the potential for mass damage from automatic weapons when they wrote the Second Amendment, with a counter argument that those same constitutionalists did not anticipate the mass influence of the Internet when they wrote the First Amendment. If the Second Amendment can be regulated, he asked why the First Amendment could not be

regulated in turn.

Several of the residents attending the meeting expressed similar concerns that in attempts to keep guns out of the hands of violent individuals, various proposed legislation could inadvertently reclassify lawful gun owners as criminals, or possibly “terrorists” under Department of Homeland Security regulations, overnight. Harris called the state law issue a “slippery slope” with the potential for creating criminals by gun owners “taking no action.”

McDermott and Delegates Norman Conway (D-38B) and Michael Smigiel (R36) attended a rally of gun-rights supporters on the grounds of the General Assembly Feb. 6, in which, McDermott said, thousands turned out as the first hearing on Gov. Martin O’Malley’s (D) Firearm Safety Act (SB-281) came before the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee.

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Mathias will oppose gun bill, continue to support death penalty SHEILA R. CHERRY ■ Associate Editor/Bayside Gazette (Feb. 22, 2013) Local representatives in the Maryland General Assembly are “shifting into third gear” as legislative action on both local initiatives and statewide proposals head to the respective floors and committees, Sen. Jim Mathias (D-38) said Feb. 19.

The senator said he would be voting “no” on two of the statewide bills the senate is currently focused on. The first was the Firearm Safety Act (SB0281), and the second was a bill to repeal the death penalty in Maryland and replace it with life-without parole.

Mathias said the sentiment among his constituents on the Eastern Shore has been overwhelmingly against Gov. Martin O’Malley’s (D) gun bill. He added that

he has supported the death penalty in the past and would respectfully continue to do so. “It’s important to listen,” to opposite perspectives, he said. “But I’ve been a public safety guy for a long time,” and he said that even while serving a sentence of life without parole criminals who have been convicted of heinous crimes can still pose safety risks — whenever they interface with other human beings.

Among the local proposals Mathias introduced the prior week was a bill to establish a task force to study moving the first day of school to after Labor Day and a bill that would allow insurance companies to drop auto policyholders who misrepresent where they reside.

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Mathias said shifting the school year to after Labor Day has been a desire of Eastern Shore businesses for a long time, but one that has met with significant resistance from teachers. He said the task force concept was intended to bring representatives of all the interested parties to the table in an attempt to explore what solutions might develop.

If approved, the task force would be required to report its findings to the governor and the General Assembly on or before June 30, 2014.

Mathias also introduced a proposal he said would help protect automobile insurance companies from fraud (SB 950), on Feb. 14. The bill, he said, would allow insurers to cancel policies if the information provided by a policyholder is found to be fraudulent.

According to the bill, insurers would be allowed to rescind a policy or binder number if an applicant misrepresents that the covered motor vehicle is garaged, or the owner lives in Maryland.

Asked about the how the bill would impact residential moves by residents in a tri-state area like Delmarva, Mathias said, “There are good-faith issues that happen and then there is fraud.”

Meanwhile, Delegate Michael McDermott (R-38B) offered proposals to allow victim impact statements to be included when motor vehicle accidents are prosecuted, to provide a grace period to local jurisdictions that had proposals pending regarding a deadline for submitting proposed land use maps under O’Malley’s “septic bill,” and to extend the eligibility period for members of the Law Enforcement Officers’ Pension System to participate in the Deferred Retirement Option Program.

McDermott proposed a bill (HB 1382) that would allow a prosecuting attorney to submit a victim impact statement to the court and the defendant, or child respondent, if the defendant is convicted of a criminal offense involving a motor vehicle accident. The same allowance would be made for prosecutors in cases in which a child respondent is adjudicated delinquent for any act involving a motor vehicle if the act would be considered criminal if committed by an adult.

McDermott’s offered a proposal, HB 1383, which would extend the period of eligibility for members of the Law Enforcement Officers’ Pension System who want to participate in the Deferred Retirement Option Program. The bill would alter the formula for computing the normal service retirement allowance by expanding the eligibility requirement that members have at least 25 years and less than 30 years of creditable service, to include officers who have at least 29 years and less than 34 years of creditable service.

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Maryland House panel approves bill to overturn pit bull ruling Ruling by state’s high court singled out breed as ‘inherently dangerous’ ALEXANDER PYLES ■ The Daily Record Newswire (Feb. 22, 2013) A House of Delegates committee has unanimously approved a bill that would overturn a controversial ruling by Maryland’s high court that last year singled out pit bulls as “inherently dangerous.”

The Court of Appeals decided in April that pit bull owners ought to know their dog is a dangerous animal by virtue of its breed, making those owners, their landlords and potentially other business owners, strictly liable for damages if a pit bull attacks someone.

The ruling was almost universally condemned by members of the General Assembly, who immediately began making plans to pass legislation that would overturn the court.

In an August special session in which the legislature was focused on expanding gambling, an attempt to overturn the ruling failed when the House and Senate could not decide how to change the law.

But compromise legislation emerged early this year between a pair of Montgomery County Democrats: Sen. Brian E. Frosh, chairman of the Judicial Proceedings Committee, and Del. Luis R.S. Simmons, a member of the Judiciary Committee.

The bill would create a presumption that a person who owns a dog of any breed knows that animal is dangerous,

while also allowing a dog owner to argue that presumption in court. Simmons said the bill gives dog owners a chance to defend themselves while keeping the burden of proof off of the victim.

“All a dog bite victim would have to prove is a dog, a bite, and then sit down,” Simmons said.

The bill would also remove business owners from the equation and would force the victim of a dog attack to prove that a landlord should have known the dog was dangerous. Animal rights advocates and many lawmakers had said it was unfair to single out pit bulls from other breeds.

“There are many pit bulls that are sweet and loveable,” Simmons said.

In a 22-0 Judiciary Committee vote, the bill was approved with one technical amendment, clarifying that landlords

would not automatically be held liable if a dog attacked someone on their property. The full House could approve the legislation, HB 78, as early as next week.

The Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee held a hearing on an identical bill, SB 160, on Feb. 5, but Frosh said the panel wouldn’t vote on that bill until the House passed its version. In August, the Senate passed legislation that was later amended by the House in such a way that Frosh found unacceptable, effectively killing the legislation.

Frosh’s original bill in August made all dog owners strictly liable if their dog bit someone, with some exceptions. But the House of Delegates’ version drastically narrowed Frosh’s legislation, making owners liable only if a dog was running “at large.” Both bills removed landlords’ liability.

The House immediately adjourned after passing the amended bill, making it impossible for the two chambers to confer. Frosh didn’t feel the bill went far enough, so allowed the legislation to die when the Senate adjourned later.

This time, the chairman is letting the House go first.

“We’ll wait for it to trot across,” Frosh said.

Assuming no unexpected amendments are tacked on during debate by the full House, the emergency measure is all but assured passage in the Senate, which is likely to follow Frosh’s lead.

Upon passage, the legislation would immediately overturn the court decision, which has put pressure on animal shelters and has caused some to be threatened with eviction should they not give up their dogs.

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tions for their land use growth tiers by July 1, if they already had a proposed map pending approval as of Feb. 1.

During a Dec. 10, 2012, town council meeting, Tracey Gordy, director of the Maryland Department of Planning, told Berlin councilmembers that jurisdictions needed to formalize approval of their land use maps by the end of the year in order to be able to approve major subdivisions that were not already served by public sewer systems in 2013. Failing to meet the deadline, she said, would result in localities being unable to receive percolation tests for development sites from the state health department.

McDermott, who previously this session proposed legislation to repeal the septic bill, proposed in HB 1385 to extend the Dec. 31 deadline to July 1, as long as the jurisdictions had proposals to define their major and minor subdivisions already pending by Feb. 1.

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Event to feature local conservation organizations and activities SHEILA R. CHERRY ■ Associate Editor/Bayside Gazette (Feb. 22, 2013) Organizers for the Maryland Coastal Bays Program’s “Go Green Social” are adapting the “green drinks” concept, where people with a common interest in environmental conservation meet in informal sessions.

The Maryland Coastal Bays Program is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the bays behind Ocean City and Assateague Island.

The MCBP Citizen’s Advisory Group announced it will hold its first Go Green Social event Feb. 27, from 5-7 p.m. at the Ocean Pines Country Club. The event,

which will be free and open to the public, will be offering happy hour drink prices and hors d’oeuvres.

Sandi Smith, fundraising and marketing specialist for MCBP, said the organizers were hoping a less structured form of outreach might attract interested individuals who would not otherwise attend a formal meeting. Through the meet-and-greet-style of a social, environmental organizations will have representatives on hand to discuss a variety of conservation-oriented missions, activities and volunteer opportunities in setting what would more closely resemble a job fair than a series of presentations.

Local groups that will be participating

in the get together include: ■ Ocean Pines Environment and Natural Assets Advisory Committee, which provides suggestions and recommendations for improving the health and vitality of Ocean Pines’ natural resources as well as advising the Ocean Pines Association Board of Directors on environmental issues; ■ Lower Shore Land Trust, which assists landowners and communities in finding ways to conserve land for the enjoyment and well-being of present and future generations; ■ Assateague Island Alliance, which was created to benefit the Assateague Island National Seashore by supporting

OC Power Squadron named among top in nation (Feb. 22, 2013) The Ocean City Power Squadron has been named among the top four Power Squadrons in the nation as recognized by the Boat US/United States Power Squadrons® Distinguished Squadron Civic Service Award. This is the most significant award honoring the best among the 420 squadrons of USPS. The presentation was made during the Power Squadrons’ national meeting in Jacksonville, Fla., in late Janu-

ary by National Chief Cmdr. John Alter and Boat U.S. Foundation’s Assistant Director of Boating Safety Ted Sensenbrenner.

Serving communities along Maryland’s Eastern Shore, its members were very involved in many community outreach programs in 2012, including cooperative charting; maintenance of their adopted park in Ocean Pines; conducting a flounder survey for the Department of Natural

Resources; and working with the local Coast Guard Auxiliary to publish and distribute tide charts for the Ocean City area. The Ocean City Squadron also provided fishing trips to support kids and families in the local “Believe in Tomorrow Program.”

For more information about the Ocean City Power Squadron, contact Cmdr. Tom Quinn at 410-641-7329 or Executive Officer Mort Brown at 410641-8040.

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House committee supports wind bill ALEXANDER PYLES ■ The Daily Record Newswire (Feb. 22, 2013) A House of Delegates committee has approved Gov. Martin O’Malley’s offshore wind energy legislation for the second year in a row.

The House Economic Matters Committee voted 14-7 Friday to bring this year’s version of the bill, which would make Marylanders buy energy produced by wind turbines off the coast of Ocean City while holding down the cost of that energy, to the full House, where a similar bill easily passed last year.

But offshore wind hit has repeatedly hit a road block in the Senate Finance Committee, where despite the support of committee Chairman Thomas “Mac” Middleton, D-Charles, the legislation has died two years in a row.

The narrative is expected to play out differently this year. Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., D-Calvert and Prince George’s, shuffled the Senate panel’s roster in January to ensure the bill would reach the full Senate, where 24 senators are sponsoring the legislation. State House aides say the Senate expects more than those 24 senators to vote for offshore wind — but 24 are all that is needed to pass the legislation.

The Maryland Chamber of Commerce and other business advocates are opposing the bill because it would increase businesses’ electricity bills by 1.5 percent. Republicans in the General Assembly have also criticized the rate increase, which would increase the average household’s energy costs by $1.50 a month in present-day dollars.

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Farmers asked totake part survey (Feb. 22, 2013) The Governor’s Intergovernmental Commission for Agriculture, responding to concerns expressed by farmers, is launching an online survey to find out how Maryland farmers’ experiences with county zoning and permitting and health regulations have impacted their businesses.

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An employee of the Berlin Wal-Mart allegedly stole money from the store on eight occasions.

According to the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office, Tykia Taylor, 20, of Stockton stole approximately $3,144.

She was charged Feb. 18 with a theft scheme from $1,000 to less than $10,000, two counts of theft from $1,000 to less than $10,000, four counts of theft of less than $1,000 and four counts of theft of less than $100.

Heroin A 23-year-old Berlin man was charged Feb. 15, with possession of heroin after a member of the Narcotics Unit of the Ocean City Police Department found a bag of heroin in the pocket of his hooded sweatshirt.

An undercover officer had seen Matthew James Bless enter a vehicle on Old Bridge Road in West Ocean City. Aware that there was an active warrant for Bless’ arrest, the officer stopped the vehicle on Route 50 near Riddle Lane.

After Bless was arrested on that warrant, the officer searched Bless and found the heroin, according to the Ocean City Police Department.

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An Ocean City police officer saw Hicken on the porch of a 37th Street business. Hicken’s hand was dripping blood so the officer called for an ambulance.

Hicken said he had fallen down and cut his hand after being thrown out of a party.

A woman who had been at the party gave police a different story. She said Hicken had been asked to leave the party and he was mad because he was unable to find his phone. She found the phone in the vehicle in which he had been riding.

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move in her direction.

She threw the phone toward him and he demanded that she give it to him. He then hit her in the face, she told police.

Hicken denied pulling the fire alarm.

marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Johnson was charged with possession of an open container of alcohol.

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A 31-year-old Delmar, Md. man was charged Feb. 17 with failure to obey a lawful order of police and resisting arrest.

On the evening of Sunday, Feb. 17, Worcester County Sheriff’s Office deputies and Maryland State Police responded to a West Ocean City motel for a domestic incident.

Both parties were separated and made arrangements for a ride. As they waited, police said, William Thomas, 31, of Delmar, Md. confronted the female victim after being ordered to stay away. Deputies attempted to place Thomas under arrest, but he allegedly resisted.

He was subsequently subdued and handcuffed without further incident.

Two Berlin residents were arrested Feb. 9 after a traffic stop in the area of Franklin and Railroad avenues.

According to the Berlin Police Department, a police officer noticed indicators of criminal activity and saw that one of the passengers, Kevin Johnson, 33, was holding an open container of an alcoholic beverage.

K-9 Luke conducted a scan of the vehicle and alerted to the presence of a controlled dangerous substance in the vehicle. During a search, police located suspected marijuana and arrested the driver, Lodietre J. Rounds, 33.

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Caretaker of Ocean City man admits to theft NANCY POWELL ■ Staff Writer (Feb. 22, 2013) A former caretaker of an elderly Ocean City man is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday for stealing from her client.

Laura Lee Baker, also known as Laura Haislip Baker, 55, was indicted in November and charged with obtaining the property of a vulnerable adult and several counts of theft, including one charge of stealing more than $100,000.

The victim was 89 when he filed a complaint with a local bank stating that his caretaker, Baker, had taken funds from his checking account without his permission. He had added Baker to his checking account in May 2011.

Baker wrote 11 checks last summer to herself, to cash or to other companies or accounts unassociated with the victim. According to the statement of

charges, the total amount of the checks was $266,735.27.

The man reportedly told police that he and Baker were engaged and that he had added her to his checking account so she could help him pay his bills. She was only supposed to write checks to pay for the gas and electric at his condominium.

He also told police he had not spoken to Baker about the missing money.

Police arrested Baker on Sept. 24, 2012 and charged her with theft of more than $1,000 and having a theft scheme to steal more than $100,000.

According to the charging document, Baker admitted to police that she stole money from the man and she said she had made a mistake. When they asked if the man could get any of his money back, she said it was gone.

On Nov. 27, 2012, a Worcester County grand jury indicted Baker on charges of obtaining property valued at

$500 or more from a person at least 68 years of age, embezzlement or misappropriation by a guardian or administrator, obtaining property valued at $500 or more from a vulnerable adult, a theft scheme of more than $100,000, three counts of theft from $1,000 to less than $10,000, three counts of theft from $10,000 to less than $100,000 and theft of more than $100,000.

Her jury trial was scheduled to be held March 12, but that is now cancelled.

In Circuit Court in Snow Hill on Feb. 14, Baker was scheduled for a motions hearing, but instead, she entered an Alford plea to the charge of obtaining $500 or more from an adult at least 68 years old. In an Alford plea, the defendant does not admit guilt, but acknowledges that the prosecution has sufficient evidence for a guilty verdict.

Her sentencing date is set for Feb. 27.

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Berlin man, three others face federal prison terms NANCY POWELL ■ Staff Writer (Feb. 22, 2013) A Berlin man and three New Jersey men are facing federal drug charges.

Tony Lamont Mills, 32, of Berlin had an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Baltimore last Wednesday.

An undercover police detective met Mills in his vehicle and purchased heroin from him twice in August 2012, according to a press release issued Wednesday by the office of U.S. Attorney Rod. J. Rosenstein.

During one of those transactions with an undercover officer, Mills was holding an infant against his chest, according to a Sept. 4 press release of the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation.

On Aug. 31, 2012, the Criminal Enforcement Team of the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant with the assistance of the Berlin Police Department SWAT team at Mills’ Berlin residence, where they discovered him hiding in a bedroom closet. They also found a loaded .32 caliber revolver and a box of .32-cal-

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iber ammunition in the closet. Six bags of heroin, 6.8 grams of marijuana and drug packaging material were also recovered.

Mills, who has a lengthy criminal record in Worcester County, was sentenced Aug. 10, 2010 to 15 years in prison, with 10 years suspended, for distribution of crack cocaine. He was on probation for that charge at the time of his arrest last August.

Mills faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute heroin and up to life in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.

He had been indicted on those and other charges in Worcester County, but those charges were not prosecuted in Circuit Court in Snow Hill on Feb. 11 because of the federal charges.

The second criminal complaint charges Ramon M. Diamos, 47, and Arlon J. Macatangay, 51, both of Jersey City, N.J., and Ricky Ibanga, 38, of Bayonne, N.J., with conspiracy to distribute and possess more than 50 grams of crystal methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it.

The three men were stopped on Route 13 near the Virginia line by Maryland State Police because of a traffic violation on Feb. 10. The state trooper learned that Diamos was wanted on a New Jersey warrant and arrested him.

He recovered a clear glass pipe and a small amount of methamphetamine from Diamos’ front pants pocket.

A search of the car subsequent to Diamos’ arrest revealed a manila envelope containing 240 grams of crystal methamphetamine and a receipt in Macatangay’s name. Macatangay and Ibanga were then arrested and additional methamphetamine was found in Macatangay’s jacket pocket.

Diamos, Macatangay and Ibanga face minimum mandatory sentences of 10 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. They had initial appearances in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on Wednesday.

“I applaud the combing efforts of Worcester County Sheriff’s Office, the Maryland State Police, the Ocean City Police Department, the Berlin Police Department, ATF and HIS for their investigations in these cases,” state Worcester County State’s Attorney Beau Oglesby in the press release.

“The adoption of these cases by the United States Attorney’s Office demonstrates the strength of the relationship between local and federal authorities as we work together to pursue the eradication of controlled dangerous substances from our streets and to remove the criminals who are armed with illegal firearms from our communities.”

NANCY POWELL ■ Staff Writer (Feb. 15, 2013) The former president of the Pocomoke City Band Boosters will be sentenced for taking money from the organization.

Tracey Whittington Colbert, 39, of Crisfield was found guilty Feb. 11, in Circuit Court in Snow Hill of theft from $1,000 to $10,000, forgery and counterfeiting private documents and issuing a false document. The judge ordered a pre-sentence investigation.

Colbert was arrested last fall after detectives with the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation met with representatives of Pocomoke High School and the Worcester County Board of Education about the thefts.

Members of the Board of Education told detectives that Colbert had been using the organization’s funds for her own benefit.

The investigation revealed that between August and October 2012 Colbert not only forged other boosters’ signatures on checks, but also stole approximately $2,271 from the accounts of the band boosters.

She was found not guilty of engaging in a scheme to steal $1,000 to less than $10,000 and two additional charges each of issuing a false document and forgery counterfeiting private documents.

A date for the sentencing has not been set.

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Pension plan change hinges on the method Rumblings continue in City Hall that the mayor and council are apparently trying to find a politically palatable way to reinstitute the defined benefit pension plan for the city’s public safety workers, having promised on the campaign trail last fall that they would at least give it their best effort.

Finding some agreeable method is not going to be easy, especially considering some of the bad news larger businesses in the resort are receiving about their healthcare costs and how they are likely to go up … way up.

Skyrocket would be the more appropriate word for what will happen in many cases because of the Affordable Care Act, according to a briefing given recently by local insurance professionals to Ocean City Chamber of Commerce members.

With an angry eye on that financial situation, business and business property owners will not be in the mood to consider the possibility of having to pay the city a little more to undo the pension plan change made by the former council majority.

What that means for city officials is that they will have to find a way to reestablish some version of the former pension system in a revenue-neutral way. In other words, people will always support something that won’t cost them anything, whether that cost is now or later.

How they can do that in this extremely uncertain economic climate is an interesting question, but it is one elected officials will have to answer to the satisfaction of most, if not all, taxpayers.

This isn’t an argument about what public safety employees do or don’t deserve, but about how elected officials can do it, along with the possibility of salary increases, without suffering some political fallout from the private sector.

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A huge meteor screams through the atmosphere, trailing smoke, shattering windows and blowing out doors until it crashes through the ice over a remote body of water where virtually no one lives. All that’s left to see is a perfectly round hole in the ice.

At least they SAY it was a meteor.

It all seems too pat to me and too easily explained. I don’t want to cause anyone to panic, but I wouldn’t be poking around that site too much until I knew exactly what it was that’s resting on the bottom.

If I have my movie history straight, it could well be something down there that looks a great deal like James Arness dressed as a big carrot. Only real.

Sci-fi fans will recall that the original version of “The Thing” did feature a creature portrayed

by Arness and, yes, he did look like a big carrot and, yes, he (or it) did crash into the ice in a remote area, only to be thawed out by a bunch of busybody sci-

By Stewart Dobson entists who just couldn’t leave it alone.

What I never could figure out, however, was how a creature as dumb and plodding as The Thing was could possibly have piloted his spacecraft anywhere near this solar system, much less Earth itself.

Either he was on autopilot or he was pinballing uncontrollably around space going, “Yup, yup, yup, watch me go, watch me go … what does this thing do …” Blam!

I really don’t believe there are

aliens on earth, with the exception of my 10th grade English teacher, Mr. Wally, who had a seriously large head for a human, and some members of Congress, who, obviously, have little tiny heads. But it doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen.

After all, why else would we continue to beam signals out into the universal void unless we have some small hope that something, somewhere will answer? What’s more, why do we believe that the response would be a nice one or even that their politics are the same as ours?

“Helloooooo from Planet Bizzlespit #9. Weeeee have universal health care. How about youuuuuuuuuu?”

For all we know at this point, and despite what all our leading scientists say, the incident in Russia was the answer to our messages and we just missed it.

Somewhere out there, it just could be that a civilization on par with ours retrieved our radio signal and decided, “Skip the formalities, let’s throw a rock at it.”

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Restaurants to give percentage of sales to West OC shelter LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor (Feb. 22, 2013) The Ocean City HotelMotel-Restaurant Association this week officially announced a partnership with Diakonia for “Diakonia’s Dine Out Days,” set to take place Wednesday and Thursday, April 24-25.

“It’s an opportunity for local restaurants to support local people in need of food, shelter and support services,” said Debbi Anderson, Diakonia board member and special events chairwoman. The Diakonia residence, located in West Ocean City, provides emergency and transitional housing, food services, counseling and assistance to its guests.

“Restaurants are asked to participate by donating a percentage of their profits for April 24 and/or April 25 and to join us in promoting the event in the coming weeks,” Anderson said. “Community members are asked to gather their friends, families, co-workers and ‘Dine Out’ at a participating restaurant for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Enjoy a meal out and help others at the same time.”

The registration deadline for restaurants to be included in the event’s promotional material is April 12. Restaurants may register after April 12, but they will not be featured in the published restaurant list /marketing materials.

A booth will be set up during the OCHMRA Trade Expo, March 3-4, at the Ocean City convention center on 40th Street with additional information. Registration forms will be available at that time.

“Last year, Diakonia established its first special events committee with community volunteers who generously support Diakonia’s efforts. With their many years of experience in the Ocean City community, they developed ideas for fundraising events [and] this was one of them,” Anderson said. “Last year we had 26 participating restaurants, raising over $6,000. This year, we’re looking for even greater participation by restaurants and more community members supporting us by eating out.”

Last year, the event, “Dine Out for Diakonia,” was held only one day. This year, “Diakonia’s Dine Out Days,” will take place two days.

Diakonia provides emergency and transitional housing, food assistance and support services 365 days a year. For more than 40 years, the organization has brought “help for today and hope for tomorrow to the members of our community who are dealing with the issues of homelessness and hunger,” Anderson said.

All of the funds raised through Diakonia’s Dine Out Days will be used to support programs and services in the community.

For more information about Diakonia’s Dine Out Days, contact Anderson at 410-250-0315.

A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR Three local golfers met the legendary Arnold Palmer on Jan. 1, while playing his BayHill Golf Course in Orlando, Fla. Pictured, from left, are Matt Bayline, owner of Duffy’s Tavern; Dr. Mike Nesterak, Palmer and Dean Langrall of Jolly Roger Amusement Park.

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(Feb. 22, 2013) Much like the discovery this week of the bones of Richard III – revealed, to Shakespeare’s credit, to have suffered from severe scoliosis – beneath a parking lot in Leicester, Ocean City has recently confirmed its own case of historic malformation beneath its pavement.

After more than a century of growth, the town has only now finalized property surveys that conclusively show that Baltimore Avenue is, in fact, built cockeyed.

City Public Works Director Hal Adkins submitted land plats to the county records office last month that clearly show that the portion of the avenue above North Division Street was not built – and is not currently situated – parallel to the right-of-way strip that was established in the late 19th century.

“The paved surface of the road and the two sidewalks next to it are not installed parallel to either side of the right-of-way, as it’s drawn,” Adkins said. “The improved portion of the roadway is improved at an angle. If you went up in a helicopter and were to look down, you could tell that it’s slanted.”

When the original land division for the municipality was established in 1875, the city’s limits stretched only from North Division to South Division Streets. Between these two, the city claimed a 50-foot-wide easement for Baltimore Avenue.

When the town annexed further land to the north and south some years later, towards the end of the century, this right-of-way was widened to 75 feet for those portions. Since the storm of 1933, the bulk of the southern section – below South Second Street – has been underwater, beneath the inlet.

However, the city did not use all of its allotted easement when it laid down and upgraded the roadway over the years. While the unpaved sections retained the city’s rights of use, they were typically incorporated into adjacent properties as front yards, parking spaces, or porch extensions.

“What you have is a large amount of unimproved right-of-way that appears, to the passerby, as private property,” Adkins said.

Furthermore, the road itself was not laid down straight through the easement zone, but rather diagonally across it. At North Division Street, all of the city’s unused right-of-way lies on the west side of the road; but as one progresses north, the road slants west, gradually shifting the excess space to the east side of the road. The direction of the road and right-of-way then abruptly changes at 15th Street, above which Baltimore Avenue was built much later in the 20th century.

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Original Balt. Ave. right-of-way much wider than actual street Once the Baltimore Avenue corridor had been fully built out with hotels and homes, and the bed of the modern roadway set, the road angle became less of an issue. But although most modern property owners are unaware of the situation, those who built the original foundations of the corridor definitely were.

“Clearly, when these buildings were built, they knew about the historic easement,” Adkins said. On the new survey maps, he point out, one can clearly see that the porches of the old houses along Baltimore Avenue, between North Division and 15th Streets, line up perfectly with the boundaries of the original right-of-way and are not parallel, if one looks closely, to the actual edge of the sidewalk.

When the town rebuilt Baltimore Avenue in 1991, the road was widened to take up the exact space of the 50-foot easement that existed between North Division and South Division. Below South Division, the road was aligned with the east side of the original rightof-way, leaving the unimproved excess all along the west side “That section is dead-on because I rebuilt the whole thing in 1991, and I made sure to put it dead-on,” Adkins said. Some properties had sections of porches or steps protruding into the road, Adkins said, which were removed and rebuilt to the side or rear of the buildings by the city, at no cost to the property owners.

The city could, theoretically, do the same thing with the rest of the 75-foot right of way that exists north of North Division Street and south of South Division Street. Because of this, it has been the city’s policy to only allow minor structures such as signs, walkways, and parking lots to be placed in the right-of-way whenever properties along Baltimore Avenue are renovated or rebuilt.

Recently, however, this policy was tightened to specify that nothing except landscaping be allowed in any easement zones.

“The mayor and council instructed staff to not issue any more building permits that would obstruct that right of way,” said city Zoning Administrator R. Blaine Smith. “They don’t want to encumber those areas any more for the future.”

This has put somewhat of a squeeze on rebuilding in the area. At last month’s Board of Zoning Appeals hearing, the board again rejected a proposal to build a five-story condo on the northeast corner of Baltimore Avenue and 10th Street because the structure’s size violated the specified property setbacks, which expand from five feet to 10 feet once a building rises above three stories.

However, a representative for the property’s owner, Ardeshir Sassan, claimed that his client was forced to build up because the lot’s substandard size made it financially impossible to

invest in a rental property that would otherwise be so limited in space.

Since 1970, the city’s minimum lot size has been 5,000 square feet. However, the lot in question is only 3,500, largely due to the fact that the westernmost 30 feet of the property is city right-of-way, even though it appears to be part of Sassan’s lot.

The Ocean City Development Corporation – the city-backed nonprofit that sponsors downtown revitalization projects - also requested that Sassan not be given any leeway, as it appeared that he simply failed to understand the restrictions involved with the lot before he razed the building that was previously located there.

“It would appear that the bulk of the building is causing the need for these requests,” OCDC Executive Director

Glenn Irwin told the board. “The requests for the variances seem to be selfimposed hardships to accommodate a larger and taller building.”

Another project in the works that may be affected by the right-of-way is the proposed construction of a miniature golf course on the property that used to house Trimper’s Tank Battle amusement ride, on Baltimore Avenue below South First Street.

The city’s Planning and Zoning Commission recently gave a favorable recommendation to City Council to add miniature golf as a conditional use in the downtown zoning district, which would allow Trimper Amusements to appeal the city for the rights to build a course granted that its design did not adversely affect the neighborhood. The course would be constructed and oper-

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However, the Tank Battle lot – located just south of the historic Henry Hotel – features roughly 32 feet of what appears to be the front of the property but is, in fact, the remainder of the city’s 75-foot right of way. In fact, the corner of the Henry Hotel itself protrudes into this area, which appears to be the building’s front lawn.

Because so many of the easement areas are currently used for parking, in a neighborhood that is already pressed by traffic, “it would have a tremendous impact if the city ever reclaimed that space,” Irwin said.

Although OCDC has no development plans that would use the remaining right-of-way, “it should be an important discussion when the city wants to have it,” Irwin said.

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SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY 10 68TH ST., UNIT #3 OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Susan E. Davis, dated June 14, 2008 and recorded in Liber 5123, folio 234 among the Land Records of Worcester Co., MD, default having occurred under the terms thereof and at the request of the parties secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer for sale at public auction at the Circuit Court for Worcester Co., at the Court House Door, Snow Hill, on MARCH 11, 2013 AT 2:10 PM ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON situated in Worcester Co., Maryland and described as Unit Number Three (3) in the “Sunset South Condominium Horizontal Property Regime” and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property is improved by a dwelling.

The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions, easements, encumbrances and agreements of record affecting the subject property, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.

Terms of Sale: A deposit in the form of cashier’s or certified check, or in such other form as the Substitute Trustees may determine, at their sole discretion, for $16,000 at the time of sale. If the noteholder and/or servicer is the successful bidder, the deposit requirement is waived. Balance of the purchase price is to be paid within fifteen (15) days of the final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Worcester Co., Maryland. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase price at the rate of 8% per annum from date of sale to the date the funds are received in the office of the Substitute Trustees, if the property is purchased by an entity other than the noteholder and/or servicer. If payment of the balance does not occur within fifteen days of ratification, the deposit will be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. There will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event settlement is delayed for any reason.

Taxes, ground rent, water rent, and all other public charges and assessments payable on an annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges to be adjusted for the current year to the date of sale, and assumed thereafter by the purchaser.

Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the ground rent escrow, if required. Cost

of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes, and all settlement charges shall be borne by the purchaser. If the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of the deposit to the purchaser. Upon refund of the deposit, the sale shall be void and of no effect, and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the Substitute Trustees. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property. The purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of loss for the property immediately after the sale. (Matter #2012-22116) Laura H. G. O’Sullivan, Deborah K. Curran, Erin M. Brady, Diana C. Theologou, Laura L. Latta, Jonathan Elefant, Laura T. Curry, Benjamin Smith, Chasity Brown, Substitute Trustees ALEX COOPER AUCTS., INC. 908 YORK ROAD, TOWSON, MARYLAND 21204 410-828-4838 OCD-2/21/3t __________________________________ McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC 312 Marshall Avenue, Suite 800 Laurel, Maryland 20707 www.mwc-law.com

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY 4711 COASTAL HWY., UNIT #245 OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Mark Kiefer a/k/a Mark A. Kiefer, dated October 5, 2007 and recorded in Liber 5005, folio 440 among the Land Records of Worcester Co., MD, default having occurred under the terms thereof and at the request of the parties secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer for sale at public auction at the Circuit Court for Worcester Co., at the Court House Door, Snow Hill, on MARCH 11, 2013 AT 2:11 PM ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON situated in Worcester Co., Maryland and described as Unit No. 245 in the “Wight Bay Condominium” and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property is improved by a dwelling.

The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions, easements, encumbrances and agreements of record affecting the subject property, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.

Terms of Sale: A deposit in the form of cashier’s or certified check, or in such other form as the Substitute Trustees may determine, at their sole discretion, for $21,000 at the time of sale. If the noteholder and/or servicer is the successful bidder, the deposit requirement is waived. Balance of the purchase price is to be paid within fifteen (15) days of the final ratifica-

tion of the sale by the Circuit Court for Worcester Co., Maryland. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase price at the rate of 8% per annum from date of sale to the date the funds are received in the office of the Substitute Trustees, if the property is purchased by an entity other than the noteholder and/or servicer. If payment of the balance does not occur within fifteen days of ratification, the deposit will be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. There will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event settlement is delayed for any reason.

Taxes, ground rent, water rent, and all other public charges and assessments payable on an annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges to be adjusted for the current year to the date of sale, and assumed thereafter by the purchaser.

Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the ground rent escrow, if required. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes, and all settlement charges shall be borne by the purchaser. If the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of the deposit to the purchaser. Upon refund of the deposit, the sale shall be void and of no effect, and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the Substitute Trustees. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property. The purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of loss for the property immediately after the sale. (Matter #2011-19022) Laura H. G. O’Sullivan, Deborah K. Curran, Erin M. Brady, Diana C. Theologou, Laura L. Latta, Jonathan Elefant, Laura T. Curry, Benjamin Smith, Chasity Brown, Substitute Trustees ALEX COOPER AUCTS., INC. 908 YORK ROAD, TOWSON, MARYLAND 21204 410-828-4838 OCD-2/21/3t __________________________________

SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY KNOWN AS NO. 202 32ND STREET, UNIT #201 OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 CASE NUMBER 23-C-12-000260 Covahey, Boozer, Devan, and Dore, P.A. 11350 McCormick Road, Executive Plaza III, Suite 200 Hunt Valley, MD 21031 (443) 541-8600 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from Livio Cristiani recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County in Liber 4399, folio 634, and Declaration of Substitution of Trustees recorded among the aforementioned Land Records substituting Thomas P. Dore, Mark S. Devan, Gerard F. Miles, Jr., Shannon Menapace, and Erin Gloth as Substituted Trustees, the Substituted Trustees will offer for sale at public auction, at the Courthouse Door, Snow Hill,

Maryland on Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 11:00 AM: All that lot of ground and the improvements thereon situate in Worcester County, State of Maryland, as described in the Deed of Trust recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County, in Liber 4399, folio 634, also being further described in a Deed recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County in Liber 3065, folio 104. The improvements thereon consist of a dwelling.

The property will be sold in “AS IS” condition, subject to any existing building violations, restrictions and agreements of record. Neither the Substituted Trustees nor their respective agents, successors or assigns make any representations or warranties, either expressed or implied with respect to the property. The Substituted Trustees shall convey insurable title. TERMS OF THE SALE: A deposit in a form acceptable to the Substituted Trustee in the amount of $8,000.00 will be required of the purchaser, other than the Holder of the Note or its assigns, at the time and place of sale. Unless the purchaser is the Holder of the Note or its assigns, the balance of the purchase price shall be paid immediately with available funds within twenty (20) days of the final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Worcester County.

Time is of the essence. The purchaser, other than the Holder of the Note or its assigns, shall pay interest at the rate of 6.00000% per annum on the unpaid portion of the purchase price from the date of sale to date of settlement. Real property taxes and assessments shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Ground rent, water and/or sewer charges public or private, if any, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Cost of all documentary stamps and transfer taxes shall be paid by the purchaser. Purchaser shall have the responsibility of obtaining possession of the property. In the event settlement is delayed for any reason, there shall be no abatement of interest. If the purchaser defaults, the entire deposit is forfeited.

The Substituted Trustees shall resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser. The defaulting purchaser shall be liable for the payment of any deficiency in the purchase price, all costs and expenses of both sales, attorney fees, all other charges due, and incidental and consequential damages. In the event the Substituted Trustees do not convey title for any reason, purchaser’s sole remedy is return of the deposit. The Substituted Trustees shall have the right to terminate this contract in the event the Holder or its Servicer has entered into any agreement with, or accepted funds from, the mortgagor.

Upon termination of the contract, Purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return of the deposit. Thomas P. Dore, Mark S. Devan, Gerard F. Miles, Jr., Shannon Menapace, and Erin Gloth, Substituted Trustees Tidewater Auctions, LLC (410) 825-2900 www.tidewaterauctions.com A-4359151 02/14/2013, 02/21/2013, 02/28/2013 OCD-2/14/3t __________________________________

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SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY 9402 COASTAL HWY., UNIT #705 OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Michael Allen Parker, dated February 20, 2007 and recorded in Liber 4883, folio 137 among the Land Records of Worcester Co., MD, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Worcester Co., at the Court House Door, Snow Hill, on MARCH 1, 2013 AT 1:50 PM ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and improvements thereon situated in Worcester Co., MD and described as Unit Number 705, in “Flying Cloud Condominium”, Tax ID #10-219205 and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust.

The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.

Terms of Sale: A deposit of $50,000 by cash or certified check. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Worcester Co. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There will be no abatement of interest in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement or if settlement is delayed for any reason. The noteholder shall not be obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or private charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground rent, to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property.

Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to be announced at the time of sale.

If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of the deposit without interest. If the

purchaser fails to go to settlement, the deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for application against all expenses, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of the above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission on the gross sale price of this sale) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited deposit. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without reselling the property.

In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus results from improvements to the property by said defaulting purchaser and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and secured party for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection with all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the resale. Trustees’ file number 34856.

Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, John A. Ansell, III, Stephanie Montgomery, Kenneth Savitz, Substitute Trustees ALEX COOPER AUCTS., INC. 908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204 410-828-4838 www.alexcooper.com OCD-2/14/3t __________________________________ BWW Law Group, LLC 4520 East West Highway, Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 961-6555

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON 2258 GROTON RD. POCOMOKE A/R/T/A POCOMOKE CITY, MD 21851 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Mary M. Tull dated August 5, 2005 and recorded in Liber 4525, Folio 111 among the Land Records of Worcester Co., MD, with an original principal balance of $85,500.00 and an original interest rate of 1.67% default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Worcester Co., at the Court House Door, Snow Hill, on MARCH 6, 2013 AT 2:00 PM ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or improvements thereon situated in Worcester Co., MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust.

The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.

Terms of Sale: A deposit of $5,000 in cash, cashiers check or certified check is required at time of sale. Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court.

There will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of current real property taxes will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by the purchaser. All past due property taxes paid by the purchaser. All other public and/or private charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges, ground rent, whether incurred prior to or after the sale to be paid by the purchaser. All transfer taxes shall be paid by the Purchaser.

Purchaser shall pay all applicable agricultural tax, if any. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to settle within 10 days of ratification, the Sub. Trustees may file a motion to resell the property. If Purchaser defaults under these terms, deposit shall be forfeited. The Sub. Trustees may then resell the property at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. The defaulted purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser. If Sub. Trustees are unable to convey either insurable or marketable title, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of the deposit without interest.

Howard N. Bierman, Jacob Geesing, Carrie M. Ward, David W. Simpson, Jr., Substitute Trustees OCD-2/14/3t __________________________________ COHN, GOLDBERG & DEUTSCH, LLC ATTORNEYS AT LAW 600 BALTIMORE AVENUE SUITE 208 TOWSON, MARYLAND 21204

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY 2 DORCHESTER STREET, UNIT 304 OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Paul W. Rutter, Jr. and Renette L. Rutter,

dated July 3, 2007 and recorded in Liber 4962, Folio 379 among the Land Records of Worcester County, Maryland, with an original principal balance of $910,000.00, and an original interest rate of 3.000%, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Substitute Trustees will sell at public auction at the Courthouse door for the Circuit Court for Worcester County, on March 6, 2013 AT 2:10 PM ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and the improvements thereon situated in Worcester County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property being sold is a condominium unit and all common elements appurtenant thereto.

The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.

Terms of Sale: A deposit of $9,400.00 by certified funds only (no cash will be accepted) is required at the time of auction. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Worcester County. The purchaser, other than the Holder of the Note, its assigns, or designees, shall pay interest on the unpaid purchase money at the note rate from the date of foreclosure auction to the date funds are received in the office of the Substitute Trustees.

In the event settlement is delayed for any reason , there shall be no abatement of interest. Real estate taxes and all other public charges, or assessments, including water/sewer charges, ground rent, condo/HOA assessments or private utility charges, not otherwise divested by ratification of the sale, to be adjusted as of the date of foreclosure auction, unless the purchaser is the foreclosing lender or its designee. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses, and all other costs incident to settlement, shall be borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale forward.

If the purchaser shall fail to comply with the terms of the sale or fails to go to settlement within ten (10) days of ratification of the sale, the Substitute Trustees may, in addition to any other available legal remedies, declare the entire deposit forfeited and resell the property at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. Purchaser waives personal service of any paper filed in connection with such a motion on himself and/or any principal or corporate designee, and expressly agrees to accept service of any such paper by regular mail directed to the address provided by said bidder at the time of foreclosure auction. In such event, the defaulting purchaser shall be liable for the payment of any deficiency in the purchase price, all costs and expenses of resale, reasonable attorney’s fees, and all other charges due and incidental and consequential damages, and any deficiency in the underlying secured

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Legal Notices debt. The purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any resale of the property. If the Substitute Trustees cannot convey insurable title, the purchaser’s sole remedy at law or in equity shall be the return of the deposit.

The sale is subject to post-sale confirmation and audit of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan prior to the sale.

In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of his deposit without interest.

Edward S. Cohn, Stephen N. Goldberg, Richard E. Solomon, Richard J. Rogers, Randall J. Rolls, and David W. Simpson, Jr., Substitute Trustees Mid-Atlantic Auctioneers, LLC (410) 825-2900 www.mid-atlanticauctioneers.com OCD-2/14/3t __________________________________ Covahey, Boozer, Devan, & Dore, P.A. 11350 McCormick Road, Executive Plaza III, Suite 200 Hunt Valley, MD 21031 (443) 541-8600

SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY KNOWN AS NO. 58 NOTTINGHAM LANE BERLIN, MD 21811 CASE NUMBER 23-C-12-000944 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from David M. Woody and Kathleen S. Woody recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County in Liber 4507, folio 265, and Declaration of Substitution of Trustees recorded among the aforementioned Land Records substituting Thomas P. Dore, Mark S. Devan, Gerard F. Miles, Jr., Shannon Menapace, and Erin Gloth as Substituted Trustees, the Substituted Trustees will offer for sale at public auction, at the Courthouse Door, Snow Hill, Maryland on Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 11:00 AM: All that lot of ground and the improvements thereon situate in Worcester County, State of Maryland, as described in the Deed of Trust recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County, in Liber 4507, folio 265, also being further described in a Deed recorded among the Land Records of Worcester County in Liber 3260, folio 93. The improvements thereon consist of a dwelling.

The property will be sold in “AS IS” condition, subject to any existing building violations, restrictions and agreements of record. Neither the Substituted Trustees nor their respective agents, successors or assigns make any representations or warranties, either expressed or implied with respect to the property. The Substituted Trustees shall convey insurable title.

TERMS OF THE SALE: A deposit in a form acceptable to the Substi-

tuted Trustee in the amount of $17,000.00 will be required of the purchaser, other than the Holder of the Note or its assigns, at the time and place of sale. Unless the purchaser is the Holder of the Note or its assigns, the balance of the purchase price shall be paid immediately with available funds within twenty (20) days of the final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Worcester County.

Time is of the essence. The purchaser, other than the Holder of the Note or its assigns, shall pay interest at the rate of 5.50000% per annum on the unpaid portion of the purchase price from the date of sale to date of settlement. Real property taxes and assessments shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Ground rent, water and/or sewer charges public or private, if any, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Cost of all documentary stamps and transfer taxes shall be paid by the purchaser. Purchaser shall have the responsibility of obtaining possession of the property.

In the event settlement is delayed for any reason , there shall be no abatement of interest. If the purchaser defaults, the entire deposit is forfeited. The Substituted Trustees shall resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser. The defaulting purchaser shall be liable for the payment of any deficiency in the purchase price, all costs and expenses of both sales, attorney fees, all other charges due, and incidental and consequential damages.

In the event the Substituted Trustees do not convey title for any reason, purchaser`s sole remedy is return of the deposit. The Substituted Trustees shall have the right to terminate this contract in the event the Holder or its Servicer has entered into any agreement with, or accepted funds from, the mortgagor. Upon termination of the contract, Purchaser`s sole remedy shall be return of the deposit.

Thomas P. Dore, Mark S. Devan, Gerard F. Miles, Jr., Shannon Menapace, and Erin Gloth, Substituted Trustees Tidewater Auctions, LLC (410) 825-2900 www.tidewaterauctions.com OCD-2/7/3t __________________________________ McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC 312 Marshall Avenue, Suite 800 Laurel, Maryland 20707 www.mwc-law.com

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY 127 CHANNEL BUOY RD. OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Maryland Asset Group, Limited Liability Company, dated April 14, 2007 and recorded in Liber 4912, folio 521 among the Land Records of Worcester Co., MD, default having occurred

under the terms thereof and at the request of the parties secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer for sale at public auction at the Circuit Court for Worcester Co., at the Court House Door, Snow Hill, on FEBRUARY 25, 2013 AT 2:05 PM ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON situated in Worcester Co., Maryland and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property is improved by a dwelling.

The property will be sold in an "as is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions, easements, encumbrances and agreements of record affecting the subject property, if any, and with no warranty of any kind.

Terms of Sale: A deposit in the form of cashier’s or certified check, or in such other form as the Substitute Trustees may determine, at their sole discretion, for $40,000 at the time of sale. If the noteholder and/or servicer is the successful bidder, the deposit requirement is waived. Balance of the purchase price is to be paid within fifteen (15) days of the final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Worcester Co., Maryland. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase price at the rate of 8% per annum from date of sale to the date the funds are received in the office of the Substitute Trustees, if the property is purchased by an entity other than the noteholder and/or servicer. If payment of the balance does not occur within fifteen days of ratification, the deposit will be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. There will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event settlement is delayed for any reason.

Taxes, ground rent, water rent, and all other public charges and assessments payable on an annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges to be adjusted for the current year to the date of sale, and assumed thereafter by the purchaser.

Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the ground rent escrow, if required. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes, and all settlement charges shall be borne by the purchaser. If the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of the deposit to the purchaser. Upon refund of the deposit, the sale shall be void and of no effect, and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the Substitute Trustees. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property. The purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of loss for the property immediately after the sale. (Matter #2011-11215) Laura H. G. O'Sullivan, Deborah K. Curran, Erin M. Brady, Diana C. Theologou, Laura L. Latta, Abby Moynihan, Substitute Trustees

ALEX COOPER AUCTS., INC. 908 YORK ROAD, TOWSON, MARYLAND 21204 410-828-4838 02/07/2013, 02/14/2013, 02/21/2013 (sh) (022513wo) (Serial #410915) OCD-2/7/3t __________________________________ Morris/Hardwick/Schneider 9409 Philadelphia Road Baltimore, MD 21237 410-284-9600

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY 504 ROBIN DR., UNIT #67 OCEAN CITY, MD 21842 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Cathryn G. Pena, dated August 31, 2006 and recorded in Liber 4852, folio 522 among the Land Records of Worcester Co., MD, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Worcester Co., at the Court House Door, Snow Hill, on FEBRUARY 26, 2013 AT 1:00 PM ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON situated in Worcester Co., MD and described as Unit No. 67, in the "Bayshore Condominium" and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property is improved by a dwelling.

The property will be sold in an "as is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.

Terms of Sale: A deposit of $14,000 by cash or certified check. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within 10 days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Worcester Co. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. If the purchaser fails to settle within the aforesaid ten (10) days of ratification, the purchaser relinquishes their deposit and the SubTrustees may file an appropriate motion with the court to resell the property. Purchaser waives personal service of any paper filed with the Court in connection with such motion and any Show Cause Order issued by the Court and expressly agrees to accept service of any such paper or Order by certified mail and regular mail sent to the address provided by the purchaser and as recorded on the documents executed by the purchaser at the time of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon the purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United States Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser that actual receipt of the certified mail is not required for service to be effective.

If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the deposit shall be forfeited to the Sub-Trustees and all expenses of this sale (including attorney fees and full commission on the gross sales price of the sale) shall be charged against and paid from the forfeited deposit. In the event of resale the de-

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Legal Notices faulting purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any resale of the property regardless of any improvements made to the real property. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate of 7.375% per annum from the date of sale to the date the funds are received in the office of the Sub-Trustees. Taxes, ground rent, water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year to date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser.

Purchaser shall be responsible for the costs of all transfer taxes, documentary stamps and all other costs incident to settlement. Purchaser shall be responsible for physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the date of sale forward. The sale is subject to post sale audit by the Noteholder to determine whether the borrower entered into any repayment/forbearance agreement, reinstated or paid off prior to the sale. In any such event the Purchaser agrees that upon notification by the Sub-Trustees of such event the sale is null and void and of no legal effect and the deposit returned without interest. If the Sub-Trustees are unable to convey either insurable or good and marketable title, or the sale is not ratified for any reason by the Circuit Court including errors made by the Sub-Trustees, the purchaser’s sole remedy at law or in equity shall be limited to a refund of the deposit without any interest.

Mark H. Wittstadt, Gerard Wm. Wittstadt, Jr., Deborah A. Hill, Sub. Trustees ALEX COOPER AUCTS., INC. 908 YORK RD., TOWSON, MD 21204 410-828-4838 02/07/2013, 02/14/2013, 02/21/2013 (sh) (022513wo) (Serial #410915) OCD-2/7/3t __________________________________ TIMOTHY FOX 32 STONERIDGE COURT BALTIMORE, MD 21239

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Estate No. 15021 TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF SUZANNE B. HASLAM Notice is given that Marian M. Ogle, 1000 Morgan Station Road, Woodbine, MD 21797, was on February 01, 2013 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Suzanne B. Haslam who died on December 24, 2012, with a will.

Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 1st day of August, 2013.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FY2014 ANNUAL TRANSPORTATION PLAN AND COMPLEMENTARY PARATRANSIT APPLICATION APPLICANT:

Mayor and City Council of Ocean City, Maryland

Area Served:

Town of Ocean City

Description of Service: Fixed Route Transit Services for Coastal Highway and the Park and Ride, and Paratransit Service The Town of Ocean City, Maryland will be applying for Operating and Capital Funding from the Maryland Transit Administration and the Federal Transit Administration. A Public Hearing will be held on Monday, March 04, 2013, at 6:00 p.m., in the City Hall Council Chambers, 301 Baltimore Avenue, on the first floor. A copy of the application may be examined at the Department of Transportation Administrative Office, 204 – 65th Street, Building E, Ocean City, Maryland, beginning February 01, 2013, weekdays between the hours of 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

This hearing will cover the topics of general operating costs and capital requests for transportation services. The Town will be applying for funding for the following capital items: Priority 1-6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13-35

Item Purchase six 40’ heavy-duty Transit Busses @ $454,000 ea.

Bus station terminal rehab/renovation at the north end Transit Center Preventative Maintenance and repairs to include parts and labor for busses Bus station terminal rehab/renovation at the Park & Ride Transit Center Purchase a preventative maintenance and repair contract for the money counting equipment Purchase a preventative maintenance and repair contract for the Bus Barn overhead doors Purchase passenger shelters, parts, and accessories for the fixed route Purchase twenty-three 40’ heavy-duty Transit Busses @ $454,000 ea.

Total

Total

Federal

State

Town

$2,724,000

$2,179,200

$272,400

$272,400

$30,000

$24,000

$3,000

$3,000

$600,000

$480,000

$60,000

$60,000

$30,000

$24,000

$3,000

$3,000

$15,000

$12,000

$1,500

$1,500

$20,000

$16,000

$2,000

$2,000

$30,000

$24,000

$3,000

$3,000

$10,442,000 $8,353,600 $1,044,200 $1,044,200 $13,891,000 $11,112,800 $1,389,100 $1,389,100

The location of this hearing is accessible to persons with disabilities. Any individual who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in the Public Hearing should contact Mrs. Dianna Davis at 410-723-2174 at least 21 calendar days prior to the date of the hearing.

OCD-1/31/5t ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2) Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Marian M. Ogle Personal Representative True Test Copy

Charlotte K. Cathell Register of Wills Worcester County Room 102 - Court House One W. Market Street Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 Name of newspaper designated by personal representative: Ocean City Digest Date of publication: February 07, 2013 OCD-2/7/3t __________________________________

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE ESTATE NO. 15031 Notice is given that the Orphans’ Court of New Castle County, DE appointed Steffan Bradford, 1284 Bay Road, Dover, DE 19901 as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Bradley P. Bradford who died on October 19, 2012 domiciled in Delaware, USA. The Maryland resident agent for service of process is Micahel F. Brelia

whose address is 124 Mill Street, Greensboro, MD 21639.

At the time of death, the decedent owned real or leasehold property in the following Maryland counties: Worcester County.

All persons having claims against the decedent must file their claims with the Register of Wills for Worcester County with a copy to the foreign personal representative on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2) Two months after the foreign personal representative mails or delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claim within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. Claims filed after that date or after a date extended by law will be barred.

Steffan Bradford

Ocean City Today

30A LEGAL NOTICES

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Legal Notices Foreign Personal Representative Charlotte K. Cathell Register of Wills Room 102 - Court House One W. Market Street Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 Name of newspaper designated by personal representative: Ocean City Digest Date of first publication: February 14, 2013 OCD-2/14/3t __________________________________ A. GILLIS ALLEN II ALLEN & ASSOCIATES, CHTD 207 DOWNTOWN PLAZA P.O. BOX 990 SALISBURY, MD 21803-0990

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Estate No. 15032 TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF ANN SHOWELL MARINER Notice is given that A. Gillis Allen II, P.O. Box 990, Salisbury, MD 21803; and William C. Mariner, P.O. Box 611, Ocean City, MD 21842, were on February 06, 2013 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Ann Showell Mariner who died on January 27, 2013, with a will.

Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 6th day of August, 2013.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2) Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

A. Gillis Allen II William C. Mariner Personal Representative True Test Copy Charlotte K. Cathell Register of Wills Worcester County Room 102 - Court House One W. Market Street Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 Name of newspaper designated by personal representative: Ocean City Digest Date of publication:

February 14, 2013 OCD-2/14/3t __________________________________ DAVID WINGATE ELDER LAW OFFICE OF DAVID WINGATE, LLC 198 THOMAS JOHNSON DRIVE SUIT FEDERICK, MD 21702

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Estate No. 15025 TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF JAMES FRANKLIN ROBINSON Notice is given that Robin Jo Robinson McKenzie, 10936 Crystal Falls Drive, Hagerstown, MD 21742, was on February 04, 2013 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of James Franklin Robinson who died on January 6, 2013, with a will.

Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 4th day of August, 2013.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2) Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Robin Jo Robinson McKenzie Personal Representative True Test Copy Charlotte K. Cathell Register of Wills Worcester County Room 102 - Court House One W. Market Street Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 Name of newspaper designated by personal representative: Ocean City Digest Date of publication: February 14, 2013 OCD-2/14/3t __________________________________

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Estate No. 15039 TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF RONALD J. OLIVER

Notice is given that Teresa L. Villarreal, 2306 Woodland Court, Pocomoke City, MD 21851, was on February 11, 2013 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Ronald J. Oliver who died on February 10, 2013, with a will.

Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 11th day of August, 2013.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2) Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Teresa L. Villarreal Personal Representative True Test Copy Charlotte K. Cathell Register of Wills Worcester County Room 102 - Court House One W. Market Street Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 Name of newspaper designated by personal representative: Ocean City Digest Date of publication: February 21, 2013 OCD-2/21/3t __________________________________ JOHN C. SEIPP ESQ 105 CAMDEN STREET SALISBURY, MD 21801-4916

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Estate No. 15401 TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF JAMES EARL DYKES Notice is given that Jeanette D. Bennett, 515 S. Camden Avenue, Fruitland, MD 21826, was on February 12, 2013 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of James Earl Dykes who died on December 30, 2012, without a will.

Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to

the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 12th day of August, 2013.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2) Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claims within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

Jeanette D. Bennett Personal Representative True Test Copy Charlotte K. Cathell Register of Wills Worcester County Room 102 - Court House One W. Market Street Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 Name of newspaper designated by personal representative: Ocean City Digest Date of publication: February 21, 2013 OCD-2/21/3t __________________________________

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS TOWN OF OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND Pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 110 of the Code of Ocean City, Maryland, hereinafter referred to as the Code, same being the Zoning Ordinance for Ocean City, Maryland, notice is hereby given that public hearings will be conducted by the Board of Zoning Appeals for Ocean City, Maryland in the Council Chambers of City Hall located on Baltimore Avenue and Third Street, in the Town of Ocean City, Maryland on: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2013 at 6:00 p.m.

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 110-93(3), Powers, of the Code, an appeal has been filed pursuant to the provisions of Section 110-95(1)(a) requesting a side yard variance to retrofit 18 HVAC units within the setback, providing a minimum 2’ 1” setback instead of 3’ 0” as required by Code. The site of the appeal is described as located on the Bayside as part of the

Ocean City Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

LEGAL NOTICES 31A

Legal Notices Sinepuxent Plat 1891, further described as located on the west side of Coastal Highway and north side of 37th Street, and locally known as Bradley on the Bay Condominiums, Buildings B, C, D, & E, 3701 Coastal Highway, in the Town of Ocean City, Maryland.

APPLICANT: BRADLEY ON THE BAY – (BZA 2360 #13-09500001) at 6:10 p.m.

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 110-93(3), Powers, of the Code, an appeal has been filed pursuant to the provisions of Section 110-95(1)(a) requesting a side yard variance allow the installation of a new HVAC unit in the setback, providing a 2’ setback instead of 3’ as required by Code. The site of the appeal is described as Lot 9, Block 98 of the Oceanbay City Plat, further described as located on the north side of 86th Street and west side of Seabay Drive, and locally known as 8602 Seabay Drive, in the Town of Ocean City, Maryland.

APPLICANT: JOSEPH MITRECIC FOR ROBERT MITRECIC BUILDING CONT – (BZA 2361 #13-09500002) at 6:20 p.m.

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 110-93(3), Powers, of the Code, an appeal has been filed pursuant to the provisions of Section 110-95(1)(a) requesting a variance to allow an enclosed stair tower in the front yard setback; and a variance to not less than half of the Critical Area requirement of 15% afforestation pursuant to Section 30-553(8). The site of the appeal is described as Lot 1, Block 12N, Sinepuxent Beach Company Plat, 1891; further described as located on the south side of 12th Street between the Boardwalk (Atlantic Avenue) and Baltimore Avenue, and locally known as 5-12th Street, in the Town of Ocean City, Maryland.

APPLICANT: MATT HETRICK C/O STEVEN CIRILE – (BZA 2362 #13-09500003) at 6:30 p.m.

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 110-93(2), Powers, of the Code, an appeal has been filed pursuant to the provisions of Section 110-94(3)(c) requesting a special yard exception to both front yards, providing a setback of 0.50 feet on Bay Overlook Lane, and 0.38 feet on Middle Way Lane instead of 5 feet as required by Code; and pursuant to Section 110-422(1)(i) allowing the new dwelling to maintain 7.30 feet between structures instead of 10 feet as required by Code.

The site of the appeal is described as Lot 2A, Section A of the Warren’s Park Plat, further described as located between Bay Overlook and Middle Way Lanes, and locally known as 3 Middle Way Lane, in the Town of Ocean City, Maryland.

APPLICANT: WARREN’S PARK INC/RESORT HOMES (BZA 2363 #13-09400001) Further information concerning the public hearings may be examined in the office of the Department of Planning and Community Development in City Hall.

Alfred Harrison, Chairman Heather Stansbury, Attorney OCD-2/14/2t __________________________________

WORCESTER COUNTY SHORELINE COMMISSION

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS Pursuant to the provisions of Sections 3-101 and 3-102 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Worcester County, Maryland, notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be conducted by the Worcester County Shoreline Commission in the meeting room at the Ocean Pines Branch of the Worcester County Library, 11107 Cathell Road, Berlin, Maryland on Thursday, March 7, 2013. The Board members will convene at 1:30 p.m. to discuss administrative matters and may perform on-site viewing of all or some of the following cases. Thereafter, the members will reconvene at 2:00 p.m. at the library to hear the scheduled cases.

MAJOR CONSTRUCTION MAJOR 1 Hi-Tide Marine Construction on behalf of Dana Blair and Jinger Edwina Paxton - Request No. 2013-07 – Request to install one boatlift with associated pilings onto an existing parallel dock not to exceed 19’ channelward. This project is located at 6 Windward Court, also known as Tax Map 16, Parcel 41, Section 4, Lot 325, Ocean Pines Community, Third Tax District of Worcester County, Maryland.

MAJOR 2 Ian and Monica Pokrywka - Request No. 2009-17 (rehearing) - Request to install a 5’x 130’ perpendicular pier with a 6’x 33’ “T” shaped platform with a boatlift and associated pilings not to exceed 135 feet channelward. Request also includes two PWC lifts with associated pilings and 107’ of stone revetment associated with a living shoreline project. The project is located on an unimproved lot on River View Drive, also known as Tax Map 16, Parcel 86, Lot 13, St. Martin’s by the Bay, Third Tax District of Worcester County, Maryland.

OCD-2/21/2t __________________________________ JAMES E. CLUBB JR, ESQ 108 N 8TH ST. OCEAN CITY, MD 21842

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE ESTATE NO. 15042 NOTICE IS GIVEN that the Circuit court of City of Alexandria county, VA appointed Janet O. Kim, 3741 Keller Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22302 as the Executor of the Estate of Joseph E. Oglesby who died on August 10.2012 domiciled in Virginia, America.

The Maryland resident agent for service of process is James E. Clubb Jr. whose address is 108 8th Stret, Ocean City, MD 21842.

At the time of death, the decedent owned real or leasehold property in the following Maryland counties: Worcester County.

All persons having claims against

the decedent must file their claims with the Register of Wills for Worcester County with a copy to the foreign personal representative on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2) Two months after the foreign personal representative mails or delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claim will be barred unless the creditor presents the claim within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. Claims filed after that date or after a date extended by law will be barred.

Janet O. Kim Foreign Personal Representative Charlotte K. Cathell Register of Wills Room 102 - Court House One W. Market Street Snow Hill, MD 21863-1074 Name of newspaper designated by personal representative: Ocean City Digest Date of first publication: February 21, 2013 OCD-2/21/3t __________________________________ Cohn, Goldberg & Deutsch, LLC Attorneys at Law 600 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 208 Towson, MD 21204 410-296-2550 File#439459 Edward S. Cohn Stephen N. Goldberg Richard E. Solomon Richard J. Rogers Randall J. Rolls David W. Simpson, Jr. 600 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 208 Towson, MD 21204 Substitute Trustees Plaintiffs v.

David A. Patrick, Jr. Terri Lynn Patrick 449 Dueling Way Berlin, MD 21811 Defendants IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND Case No. 23-C-12-001430

NOTICE Notice is hereby given this 13th day of February, 2013, by the Circuit Court for Worcester County, that the sale of the property mentioned in these proceedings, made and reported, will be ratified and confirmed, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 18th day of March, 2013, provided a copy of this notice be published in a newspaper in general circulation in Worcester County, once in each of three successive weeks before the 11th day of March, 2013.

The Report of Sale states the amount of the foreclosure sale price to be $343,477.21. The property sold herein is known as 449 Dueling Way, Berlin, MD 21811.

Stephen V. Hales Clerk of the Circuit Court

Worcester County, Marland True Copy Test: Stephen V. Hales Clerk of the Circuit Court Worcester County, Md. OCD-2/21/3t __________________________________

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Town of Berlin Board of Appeals Pursuant to the requirements of §108-191 of the Code of the Town of Berlin, notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be conducted by the Berlin Board of Appeals in the Mayor and Council Chambers of Berlin Town Hall, 10 William Street, Berlin, Maryland on WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2013 7:00 PM 1. Approval of Minutes of June 6, 2012 Hearing 2. A request for a Zoning Certificate pursuant to §108-164(2), Nonconforming uses, to provide for an extension of a nonconforming use which exceeds the limitations established in §108-670(3)a on a property located at 508 Flower Street.

Applicant: Dena Briddell Any questions regarding the above agenda items shall be directed to the Berlin Department of Planning and Zoning at 410-641-4143.

Any persons having questions about the above-referenced meeting or any persons needing special accommodations should contact Chuck Ward at 410-641-4143. Written materials in alternate formats for persons with disabilities are made available upon request. TTY users dial 7-1-1 in the State of Maryland or 1-800-735-2258 outside Maryland.

OCD-2/21/1t __________________________________ Town of Berlin

HISTORIC DISTRICT COMMISSION March 6, 2013 Berlin Town Hall – Council Chambers 1. Call to Order 2. Agenda Adoption 3. Election of Chairman and Vice-Chairman 4. Approval of Minutes: January 2, 2013 Regular Meeting 5. Berlin Architectural Heritage recognition program 5. Comments from the Public 6. Comments from Staff 7. Comments from the Commissioners 8. Comments from the Chairman 9. Adjournment Any persons having questions about the above-referenced meeting or any persons needing special accommodations should contact Chuck Ward at 410-641-4143. Written materials in alternate formats for persons with disabilities are made available upon request. TTY users dial 7-1-1 in the State of Maryland or 1-800-735-2258 outside Maryland.

OCD-2/21/1t __________________________________

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FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Snow Hill mayor seeks county funds, suggests â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Cupcake Chunkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; NANCY POWELL â&#x2013; Staff Writer (Feb. 22, 2013) The town of Snow Hill is coming back, Mayor John â&#x20AC;&#x153;Charlieâ&#x20AC;?

Dorman told Worcester County Commissioners on Tuesday as he asked for a larger financial contribution from the county to the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget for next year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a vision for Snow Hill,â&#x20AC;?

Dorman said after handing boxes of cupcakes to each commissioner.

Borrowing an idea from Sussex Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Punkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Chunkin, Snow Hill plans to have a Cupcake Chunkin. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll make national news,â&#x20AC;?

Dorman said.

The town also foresees a future catering to brides and grooms. Marriage licenses are obtained at the courthouse, the assistant town manager is an ordained minister, restaurants could provide space and food for receptions and some weddings could take place aboard the Bay Queen paddle boat, which used to be docked in Pocomoke, but is now docked in Snow Hill. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Snow Hill will be a wedding destination,â&#x20AC;? Dorman said.

An oyster festival is also in the works and another sausage sale is coming. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Snow Hill is coming back alive,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to be a destination.â&#x20AC;?

Dorman also said the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wastewater treatment plant is being upgraded

and although grants will pay for most of the cost, Snow Hill has some significant expenses. The town also has street issues and operational expenses that have increased each year.

Last year, the county allocated $400,000 to Snow Hill and Dorman asked for an additional $100,000.

The town now owns the former Opera House at the corner of North Washington Street and West Market Street. Dorman said the town wants to

rehabilitate the building to encourage tourism and economic development.

Complete rehabilitation of the deteriorated building, across the street from the courthouse, would cost an estimated $1.5 million to $2 million, depending on its use and level of finish.

Dorman said he would like the county to fund the approximately $200,000 cost of stabilizing the building and replacing its roof.

Officials of each municipality and

Ocean Pines are invited to request funds from the county during an annual meeting. Dorman asked for funds Tuesday because he would be unable to attend the March 5 meeting when the commissioners will hear the requests. Written requests are due by Wednesday, Feb. 27.

The Worcester County Commissioners will consider the request for funds for Snow Hill, Berlin, Ocean City, Pocomoke and Ocean Pines during upcoming budget sessions.

WORCESTER COUNTY BRIEFS

funding to statewide energy efficient projects to be included in fiscal year 2014 capital improvement projects. Money for the Snow Hill Middle School project is from that $25 million.

(Feb. 22, 2013) The Worcester County Commissioners discussed the following issues during their Tuesday, Feb. 19 meeting.

The funds are collected by the state from each county business that files annual hazardous materials information. The money is passed to the local Emergency Planning Committee to promote public education of hazardous materials in the communities and to use in the training of local firefighters on the appropriate response to leaks and spills.

MDE grant funds

Energy efficiency

The commissioners approved an addendum to the Maryland Department of the Environment and the Worcester County Local Emergency Planning Committee memorandum of understanding.

The memorandum is about the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s allocation of Maryland Department of Environment funds for the 2013 grant year. The amount this year is $1,300.

The commissioners approved the Worcester County Board of Education request to proceed with a Snow Hill Middle School energy efficiency project.

The Maryland Board of Public Works approved full state funding of $166,000 for the fiscal year 2013 energy efficiency initiative project at Snow Hill Middle School.

Lamps and ballasts will be replaced in more than 2,000 light fixtures.

Construction documents will be forwarded to the state March 1 for approval. Bids will be sought in April or May and the Worcester County Board of Education will award the bid May 21. The project is expected to start June 17 and be completed July 27.

The projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s estimated cost is $197,000.

Local funding for the project, including design, construction and contingency, is estimated to be $41,000.

Delmarva Power has estimated the project would reduce the annual lighting kilowatt hours at the middle school by 55 percent.

That would cut the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual utility bill by $40,000.

The Board of Education will apply for incentive rebates associated with the project.

Those rebates will be available in August.

In May 2012, the Board of Public Works dedicated $25 million of fiscal year 2013

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Refuse collection bids The commissioners awarded a two-year contract for refuse collection to the lowest bidder, Bennett Waste of Fruitland, for its monthly bid price of $2,059.45. Four companies submitted bids for the work.

Public Landing marina The commissioners approved bid documents for the Public Landing Harbor project that involves dredging the harbor and the construction of approximately 660 feet of bulkhead.

Plans for the work are completed and the construction phase is ready to start.

Funds to pay for the work will come from Waterway Improvement grants and a county designated fund balance.

Truck needed The commissioners authorized the Solid Waste Division of the Department of Public Works to solicit bids for the purchase or lease of one off-road dump truck. The new truck will replace a dump truck that is currently leased.

Groundwater monitoring The commissioners approved the proposal of EA Engineering for continued monitoring of groundwater, surface water and leachate and analytical services at the central landfill for calendar years 2013 and 2014 at a cost of $89,983.97.

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Bishopville dredge spoil disposal Deadline for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Most Beautifulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is today permitted on county property NANCY POWELL â&#x2013; Staff Writer (Feb. 22, 2013) Dredge spoil from the Bishopville Pond will be disposed of on county property at no cost.

The Worcester County Commissioners on Tuesday approved the written request of Katherine Sharks, senior local program advisor for the Department of Natural Resources, to allow for the disposal.

Tests have revealed the pond sediments are free of toxic materials.

One phase of the project to enable fish passage at the Bishopville dam requires the removal of approximately 2,000 cubic yards of material from the pond bottom.

About two years ago, the Army Corps of Engineers obtained county approval to dispose of dredge spoil from the dredging project at the harbor in West Ocean City. That project generated more than 10 times the amount of spoil to be dredged at the pond. It is estimated that 1,960 cubic yards of spoil will be dredged.

The commissioners permitted that spoil to be deposited in an unused corner of the county borrow pit on Langmaid Road in Newark. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We could take this material to the

(Feb. 22, 2013) Volunteers make Worcester County a better place to live, work and visit. To honor those whose contributions assure the continuation of vital services, Worcester County residents are invited to nominate individuals for the 2013 Worcester Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Most Beautiful People Volunteer Awards. Nominees should reside in and represent the volunteer spirit of Worcester County.

The deadline to submit nomination forms is today, Feb. 22, and a recognition ceremony for all volunteers nominated will be held at a later date.

Nomination forms are available at all five Worcester County branch libraries or by contacting Worcester

Langmaid Road site,â&#x20AC;? Ed Tudor, director of the Department of Development Review and Permitting, told the commissioners.

Depositing the dredge spoil there could be beneficial because the harbor material, composed mostly of sand and shells, has been unable to support any type of vegetative cover. The pond material will be placed atop the harbor material to provide needed organic matter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We could get some vegetation finally established,â&#x20AC;? Tudor said.

In a memo to the commissioners, Tudor said he and others recommend that the Department of Natural Resources provide test results on the material for review or provide material for further testing to ensure it contains no toxic material.

The commissioners approved that recommendation plus others. The Department of Natural Resources or its contractor must be responsible for all required permitting and one or the other must be responsible for sediment and erosion control at the disposal site.

Lastly, one or the other must be responsible for hauling, spreading and stabilizing the dredge spoil after it is deposited.

The Bishopville project has been in development for several years.

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Owens embezzled$433k from Worcester Teachers Association Continued from Page 1A

“I know why, gambling addiction,” Owens said.

She recalled “sitting up all night at a casino. You wait and you lose and you lose and you lose.”

Owens, who lived in Ocean Pines and taught special education students at the Berlin school, would lose and steal more money from the Teachers Association.

As the treasurer of that association from 2006-2009, she had full access to all its bank accounts and wrote numerous checks to herself and others. She also withdrew cash from the bank account.

The thefts were discovered after the Maryland State Education Association realized that the Worcester County Teachers Association had fallen into arrears in its state dues and confronted Owens, who resigned her position as treasurer and agreed to make restitution.

The money she had stolen, $433,784.52, was owed to the Maryland State Education Association and the National Education Association rather than the Worcester County Teachers Association.

Instead of notifying law enforcement about the crime, the teachers association’s attorneys in Annapolis and Owens agreed to have her begin paying restitution following a meeting on her 55th birthday, March 25, 2009, during which she confessed to stealing more

than $400,000.

According to Assistant State’s Attorney Steve Rakow, a secret bank account was set up for her to make payments.

“It was agreed at that time that no law enforcement would be involved,” Rakow told the court.

According to written documents of the Worcester County Teachers Association, there would be no mention of the thefts to law enforcement “because of the effect on membership and the possible loss of members,” Rakow read.

The Worcester County State’s Attorney’s Office had been “totally unaware of the thefts” until reading about them in a newspaper, Rakow said. “There was an apparent cover-up.”

Eventually, a former president of the teachers association came forward and gave information about the thefts to the State’s Attorney’s Office. Detectives with the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation arrested Owens in August 2012.

An investigation uncovered thousands of visits to Delaware casinos by Owens, Rakow said.

“She has a severe gambling problem,” said Rakow, who asked the judge for a 10-year sentence, with all suspended but five years, plus probation and restitution of $211,545.07, the amount she still owes.

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Marvel also said he could not say what caused the events, but a major influence was her gambling problem.

“She would [gamble] and pay the money back,” he said. “It was a continuing process.”

After her arrest, Owens “was still supported by educators in Worcester County,” but Judge Cathell clarified that and said it was the Worcester County Teachers Association, not the Worcester County Board of Education, that supported her.

Marvel asked for a sentence to be served in the Worcester County jail followed by probation and restitution. He also asked for work release.

“I’m not sure I would want to release her into the community,” Cathell said.

The sentencing was “not a joyous moment for me,” Cathell said, as he recalled that his aunt and his sister had been teachers. “I’m sorry I’m the judge who got this case.”

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He could have sentenced her to 15 years in prison and a $25,000 fine.

Cathell also asked about charges related to the cover-up by the Worcester County Teachers Association.

“We have not been able to proceed in that direction at this stage,” Rakow said.

House raffle under way in Ocean Pines (Feb. 22, 2013) Tickets are now on sale for the Ocean Pines Volunteer Fire Department’s 2013 House Raffle. Tickets cost $100 each and the winner will be awarded a custom-built home by Brunori Homes, valued at more than $200,000.

Only 3,000 tickets will be sold.

The new home, at 82 Windjammer Road, will have three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a screened-in porch, an attached garage and all appliances.

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(Feb. 22, 2013) The Worcester County Commissioners approved private roads in West Ocean City on Tuesday following the recommendation of the Worcester County Planning Commission.

Usually, such requests are made before roads are constructed, but in this case, the roads already existed as part of the Seaside Village development just off Route 50 near the bridge into Ocean City.

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For the current developer to sell fee simple lots, they must be on an approved road, said Ed Tudor, director of the Department of Development Review and Permitting.

“It will still be maintained by the developer,” Tudor said.

The developer said it would just be a change in classification and it would be advantageous to selling the properties.

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were built and sold.

During the Planning Commission’s January meeting, Josh Mastrangelo of The Evergreene Companies, a Virginiabased homebuilder and development company, said the project should have fee simple lots, as opposed to condominium ownership, to be feasible in the current economy. Condominium financing in today’s market is difficult, he said.

Fee simple is the most common form of real estate title. The owner has absolute ownership, while in condominium ownership, owners share common elements such as a swimming pool.

(Feb. 22, 2013) A West Ocean Citybased group is seeking members for social interaction and to discuss possible issues of concern in the area. Membership to the West Ocean City Association is available to any resident or business in the areas north of Snug Harbor Road to Isle of Wight Bay and east of Holly Grove Road to the Sinepuxent Bay. Dues cost $12 per person and business memberships, at the same fee, are

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The association has a dinner meeting, a picnic, social gatherings and two meetings to discuss issues annually. The annual dinner meeting will be held Feb. 27, at Pepper’s Tavern on Route 611 near Sunset Avenue.

Naming a replacement for vice president of the association is the only business item scheduled for that meeting.

The group’s first social of the year is scheduled for Thursday, March 28, at Sub Marina on Sunset Avenue. Addi-

tional socials will be scheduled.

The spring meeting to discuss any issues is scheduled for Thursday, April 25, at the fire hall on Keyser Point Road. One issue that might arise is the possibility of residents, including children, to participate in a community service project.

Each development in West Ocean City has its own homeowners association or property owners group, but the West Ocean City Association brings them all together.

For more information, call Carolyn Cummins at 410-213-0586.

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NEWS 37A

Many summer employers will not evade health care mandate ZACK HOOPES ■ Staff Writer (Feb. 22, 2013) Despite the federal government’s granting of a seasonal leniency for short-term employers, local agents say most of the resort area’s more sizeable businesses will still meet the dreaded “large employer” threshold under the national Affordable Care Act, which will put them into the “pay or play” system for health insurance provisions.

“We’re looking at their numbers, and they’re obviously over in June, July, and August, but they also have a lot of people on in May or September,” said local insurance agent Chris Keen. “A lot of places depend on the shoulder season and that’s what puts them over.”

Although the full effect of the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as “Obamacare,” won’t go into effect until January of 2014, the employment numbers used to determine what regulations apply to businesses will be drawn from 2013.

“You should be doing this calculation now,” Keen told local business representatives at last week’s Greater Ocean City Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting at the Carousel Hotel.

“2013 is the calculation year for whether or not you’re a ‘large employer,’ which means you’ll have to ‘pay or play’ when January of 2014 comes around.”

Together with Atlantic/Smith, Crop-

per & Deeley Vice President Chris Carroll, Keen, who owns West Ocean City’s Keen Insurance, has been working to help resort businesses hash out their 2014 insurance obligations in a new system that often has very slim margins.

“That’s one of the most unusual parts of this subsidy system and this law, is that there are a series of cliffs built into it,” Carroll said.

The first cliff comes with the determination of whether or not one is a “large employer” under the law’s definition. The ACA specifies such a business as one that has 51 or more full-time employees, or the equivalent in part-time employees.

A full-time employee is someone, according to the law, who is either salaried or a waged worker clocking 130 hours or more in a given month.

In the case of part-time employees, the law requires that all their hours in a month be added and divided by 120 to determine the number of full-time equivalent employees the business has in a given month.

Businesses that only go over 50 employees for four or less months will be exempt from the “large employer” classification. But given that most Ocean City businesses begin hiring in the spring and retain employees through September and October, they are sized out of the seasonal exemption.

For those who are “large employers,” the ACA institutes a so-called “pay or play” system, whereby businesses can either provide a qualifying health insurance

plan, or pay an annual penalty of $2,000 per employee.

Although every employee counts for the purpose of calculating penalties to “large employers,” every employee does not have to be insured if said employer provides a health plan. Only those “reasonably expected” to work 30 or more hours per week must be offered insurance – and that insurance does not have to kick in for up to 90 days after employment, a grace period that eliminates short-term workers from the “You don’t have to provide them insurance, but you do have to include them in the calculation,” Carroll said.

On the other hand, the ACA also stipulates that any health plans provided by employers must meet criteria of coverage and affordability by having premiums of no more than 9.5 percent of an employee’s annual household income, and being able to pay for at least 60 percent of average annual health costs.

In cases of employees on the edge, it may be cheaper to increase their pay so that their insurance costs stay below the 9.5 percent threshold, instead of not offering a plan and paying the penalty.

For those who do not have health insurance the ACA mandates the establishment of group health exchanges in order to pool the purchasing of insurance and bring premium costs down.

Such exchanges are organized by state,

although some, such as Virginia, are defaulting to the federal government to administer their programs. But with a detailed, online insurance interface set to go live this fall, Maryland is “leading the country in insurance exchange programs,” Carroll said.

Under federal statute, anyone making up to 400 percent of the federal poverty level will have their insurance exchange purchase subsidized on a graded scale, limiting their costs to a certain percentage of their income. But this also presents another cliff, as those making more than 400 percent abruptly lose the subsidy, forcing them to pay full market rate in a climate where rates may have risen drastically.

Those making 133 percent or less of the poverty level will be eligible to go on Medicaid, and Maryland has elected to bump this level up to 138 percent. According to Carroll and Keen, this will put an additional 160,000 to 170,000 Marylanders on Medicaid beginning in 2014.

In order to control rate disparity between insurance demographic groups – particularly between the young and the old – Maryland had placed a three-to-one ratio cap on the lowest and highest rates offered on the exchange. But this is now proposed to be widened to five-to-one.

“The states don’t believe that the young and invincible are going to enroll in the exchange if their rates are that much higher,” Keen said.

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OBITUARIES June MacBayne Jacobs Brown OCEAN PINES — June MacBayne Jacobs Brown, 85, passed away at her home in Ocean Pines on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, surrounded by her family.

She is survived by her five children, Denise Brown of Dallas, Lynne Brown of Dayton, Ohio, Susan Norland of Falls Church, Va., Neil Brown June Brown of Berlin, and Carol Erbach of Henderson, Nev.; 11 grandchildren, Jennifer and Chris Brown, Ryan and Eric Schweller, Paul, Timothy, and Anne Norland, Jessica, Nathan and Matthew Erbach, and Olivia Brown; and six greatgrandchildren. She is preceded in death by her devoted husband of 59 years, Earle W. Brown; her brother, Paul MacBayne Jacobs; and granddaughter, Elizabeth Carol.

Mrs. Brown was born in Washington, D.C., on July 24, 1927, to Paul MacBayne and Rosa Kalousdian Jacobs. She graduated from Suitland High School and the University of Maryland, College Park, where she was a member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in biology and taught science for many years. In college, she met Earle W. Brown from Hagerstown, Md., and they married Sept. 6, 1947.

Mr. Brown’s career as an officer in the U.S. Army took them around the world from Texas to Minnesota, to Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Okinawa, Japan, New York City, France, Heidelberg, Germany and San Antonio, Texas. They settled in 1970 in Lincoln, Neb., where she worked at Culler Junior High School and the University of Nebraska’s Office of Financial Aid. The couple retired to Ocean Pines in 1992. June was a formidable Bridge player, an enthusiastic dancer with the Pine Tappers, a regular member of Mumford’s Landing Pool Aquatic Women, and an active member of the local P.E.O. She loved to entertain, and Earle called her “the hostess with the mostest.”

A memorial service was held Monday, Feb. 18, at Taylorville United Methodist Church in Berlin. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to Coastal Hospice, P.O. Box 1733, Salisbury, Md. 21804 or Taylorville United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 456, Berlin, Md. 21811.

Mrs. Brown will be buried with her husband at Arlington National Cemetery at a future date. Arrangements were handled by Burbage Funeral Home in Berlin.

Walter R. Roderick Sr. BERLIN — Walter Ray Roderick, 77, passed away peacefully at his home on Thursday, February 14, 2013. Born in Wilmington, N.C., he was the son of

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the late Charles H. Roderick and Mabel Clay Roderick. He was preceded in death by his wife, Maria Johnston Roderick, in 2008.

He is survived by his sons, Walter Ray Roderick Jr. and his wife, Jeanne, of Copperhill, Tenn., Edward A Roderick of Galveston, Texas, and Brett Roderick and his wife, India, of Berlin; and daughters, Deniece Hare and her husband, John, of Berryville, Va., Joan Marie Donald and her husband, Rodney, of Berryville, Va., and Maria E. “Bunny” Orlowski and her husband, Mike, of Leesburg, Va. He was an adored grandfather to 18 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

Mr. Roderick was a United States Air Force veteran, having served in the Korean War. He later worked for the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum as an aircraft restoration specialist.

Upon retirement, his family moved to the Eastern Shore, where he pursued his love of fishing and painting. He played the guitar and banjo and loved to dance. He put his heart in everything he did. He loved to tell a good joke and he loved his dogs.

He is also survived by his brother, George Roderick and his wife, Nancy Ann, of Warsaw, N.C., and a sister, Jessie Lee Frederick of Wilmington, N.C., and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by a brother, Charles Harper Roderick, and two sisters, Gladys Mae Droze and Mabel Elizabeth Carter.

A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 9, at Burbage Funeral Home in Berlin. The Rev. Walter Ray Roderick Jr. will officiate. Interment will be private. A donation may be made in his memory to the Berlin Volunteer Fire Company, 214 N. Main St., Berlin, Md. 21811.

James Irving Scarborough Sr. SNOW HILL — James Irving Scarborough Sr., 94, died Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, at Harrison House Nursing Home in Snow Hill. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of the late Clayton James Scarborough and Bessie Kent Scarborough, and stepmother Flora Wessells Scarborough. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife of 72 years, Emma Taylor Scarborough, in 2010.

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OBITUARIES in death by a grandson, Buddy Baker and a great-granddaughter, Mary Kate Brittingham.

Mr. Scarborough had owned and operated Scarborough Canning Factory in Greenbackville, Va. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Girdletree, and was an ordained Baptist deacon. He was a charter member of the Girdletree Volunteer Fire Company; he was its oldest member. He was a graduate of Stockton High School, and attended Diesel Mechanic School in New York. He worked on ferryboats on the Chesapeake Bay between Annapolis and Matapeake. He also had worked for the Eastern Shore Public Service Co., which was a forerunner of Delmarva Power Co. He also was an antique dealer and furniture refinisher. He had been an athlete and played on the Bi-County Baseball League.

A funeral service was held Tuesday, Feb. 19, at Burbage Funeral Home in Snow Hill. The Rev. Al Brininger officiated. Interment followed in Springhill Cemetery in Girdletree. In lieu of flowers, a donation may be made to Girdletree Volunteer Fire Company, P.O. Box 25, Girdletree, Md. 21829-0025, or to First Baptist Church of Girdletree, 5912 Taylor Landing Road, Girdletree, Md. 21829.

George Clive Chramek BERLIN — George Clive Chramek, 82, of Berlin died Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013, at Berlin Nursing Home in Berlin. He was the son of the late George C. Chramek and Emily Gatrell.

He was born Aug. 6, 1930, in Altoona, Pa., and graduated from Altoona High School in 1948.

Mr. Chramek is survived by his wife, Frances Brophy Chramek. He is also survived by a son, George Charles Chramek and his wife, Tracey, of Aquasco, Md.; a daughter, Dee West of Alexandria, Va.; four grandchildren, Jason, Kelly, Chris and Drew; and five great-grandchildren, Jordan, Marissa, Madison, Miranda and Mallory.

Mr. Chramek loved camping, traveling, fishing and shooting. He loved playing cards as well as practical jokes.

He was a member of the Ocean City Bowling League and worked at Century I for many years. He retired from the Washington, D.C. Navy Yard in 1987, but most of all loved his wife, children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren.

A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 24, at Burbage Funeral Home in Berlin. Friends may call one hour prior to the service. Pastor Daniel Bradford will officiate. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, 1138 Parsons Road, Salisbury, Md. 21803, or Alzheimer’s Association,

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Jean Barbara Katzer OCEAN PINES — Jean Barbara Katzer, 77, of Ocean Pines died peacefully at home on Monday, Feb. 18, 2013. She was the daughter of the late Wallace Michalowski and Josephine Skrabek Michalowski.

Mrs. Katzer was preceded in death by her loving husband, Robert Francis Katzer.

Jean Katzer She is survived by three sons, Gary Katzer and his wife, Kathy, of Long Island, N.Y., Ramon Katzer of Salisbury and Jeffrey Katzer and his wife, Dana, of Berlin; and three sisters, Irene, Pat and Joanne.

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dren, Katherine Katzer and Christian Katzer, and many nieces and nephews and a host of friends.

Mrs. Katzer had been involved with the Pine’eer Craft Club, Ocean Pines Community Garden Club and the Widows and Widowers Social Club of Ocean Pines. She also volunteered at the Ocean Pines library and was an avid reader.

Funeral services will be held at noon on Friday, Feb. 22, at Burbage Funeral Home in Berlin. Friends may call one hour prior to the service. Interment will follow at the Eastern Shore Veterans Cemetery in Hurlock, Md. The Rev. Doc. Olin Shockley will officiate.

Arrangements are being handled by Burbage Funeral Home in Berlin.

Ocean City Today publishes obituaries free of charge, space permitting. Send obituaries to editor@oceancitytoday.net

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Decatur boys’ finish season 12-10,head into playoffs

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LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor (Feb. 22, 2013) The Stephen Decatur boys’ basketball team wrapped up regular-season competition last week with an eight-point loss to the Indian River Indians. There’s no time to dwell, though, as the 12-10 Seahawks gear up for the first round of 3A East Regional tournament action Tuesday.

“We went from playing a really good game to playing a really poor game. We were flat and every loose ball they came up with. [Indian River] was quicker than us that night,” Decatur Coach Mark Engle said of his team’s 77-69 loss on the road last Saturday. “We had two bad quarters and a number of turnovers. We had some trouble handling their man-to-man defense and they out-rebounded us in a big way.

“We kind of fell apart and didn’t play smart,” he said.

Decatur gained a 17-8 advantage by the end of the first quarter, but the home team tallied 26 points in the second and held the Seahawks to 10, to lead 34-27 at halftime.

The Berlin squad put 24 points on the board in the third quarter, while the Indians netted 16 to pull ahead 5150.

Indian River secured the victory in the final quarter, outscoring Decatur 27-18.

Junior Tyler Hunter led Decatur with 21 points and seven rebounds. Senior captain Dimir Andrews had 15 points and four steals.

Two days earlier, on Feb. 14, the Seahawks traveled to Salisbury to battle the Parkside Rams and came home with a 59-50 win. They led 20-16 at the end of the first quarter and 33-26 at halftime. Both teams scored 13 points in the third quarter, but Decatur outscored Parkside 13-11 in the fourth.

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Stephen Decatur juniors, Collin Bankert, top, works on his breaststroke and teammate Tate Socha the butterfly during Monday’s practice at the Sports Core pool in Ocean Pines. Bankert, Socha and 13 other Seahawks will participate in Saturday’s 3A/2A/1A state championship meet at Eppley Recreation Center on the University of Maryland-College Park campus.

LADY SEAHAWKS EARN REG. CROWN, BOYS TAKE SECOND Fifteen Decatur swimmers to compete in state meet LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor (Feb. 22, 2013) Jenny Miller, coach of the Stephen Decatur girl’s swim team, was confident prior to last Saturday’s 3A/2A/1A East Regional competition that the Lady Seahawks would be a contender for the title.

The squad held a lead throughout the entire meet at the Arundel Swim Center,

finishing with 303 points to take home the coveted award.

Easton finished in second place with 259 points.

“It was a lot of good racing and a lot of best times.

They were very happy overall with winning and getting that plaque,” Miller said.

The top three finishers in each regional event qualified for the 3A/2A/1A state championship, scheduled for Saturday at Eppley

Recreation Center on the University of MarylandCollege Park campus. Individual competitors or relay teams who, in their regional meet, were among the next top-12 statewide times also qualified for states.

Seahawks who automatically advanced to states are freshman Hailey Williams (200-yard freestyle, second, 2:13.34; 500 freestyle, secSee SEVEN on Page 42A

Ladies upset undefeated Parkside LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor (Feb. 22, 2013) The Stephen Decatur girls’ basketball team earned two major wins at the close of its regular season, and the Lady Seahawks are now pumped up and ready for 3A East Regional tournament competition next week.

Decatur hosted the un-

defeated Parkside Rams last Thursday and sent their rivals home with a two-point loss.

“It was a huge win for us,” Coach Amy FenzelMergott said after Decatur’s 62-60 victory. “I was so proud of my girls and how they played.”

Parkside held a 13-12 advantage at the end of the first quarter and led 31-28 at the halftime break.

The Rams went into the fourth quarter on top 48-40.

Fenzel-Mergott kept senior captain Abbey Schorr and freshman Dayona Godwin on the bench in the third quarter because of foul trouble, but the two returned to the court in the fourth.

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Chris Branscome, chief executive officer of Eastern Pennsylvania Youth Soccer Association, has announced that Terry Underkoffler, instructional technology specialist and varsity soccer coach at Worcester Preparatory School, will receive the association’s 2013 Excellence in Coaching Award.

The award honors a lifetime of dedication to coaching and educating within the youth soccer community.

The award is presented for coaching excellence, which is determined in terms of a coach’s record of successfully teaching the sport and providing a positive influence by mentoring and supporting other coaches and players.

Underkoffler was nominated and selected by his peers in the Association’s coaching community and was unanimously approved by the Association’s Board of Directors. The awards reception is scheduled for March 2, at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel in Reading, Pa.

Boating course The Ocean City Power Squadron will present the new America’s Boating Course at the Ocean Pines library on Tuesday, Feb. 26.

Registration will be at 6:30 p.m., followed by the first class at 7 p.m.

This is an eight-hour course, 7-9 p.m. each evening.

Anyone born after July 1, 1972 must satisfactorily complete a safeboating class to operate a recreational vessel or personal watercraft in the state of Maryland.

Students completing this course may be eligible for six months free membership in the Ocean City Power Squadron.

This course is free. There is a nominal charge for course materials.

Call 410-726-1509 or 410-641-6535 or 410-641-8940. For more information, visit www.ocpowersquadron.org.

Pines basketball Players are sought for the Ocean Pines Basketball League, open to residents and non-residents of Ocean Pines. The program is offered by the Ocean Pines Recreation and Parks Department.

The league will feature 10 teams — six teams of 7-9 year olds and four teams of 11-14 year olds. There will also be a Saturday morning clinic for 4-6 year olds; 35 players will be admitted into the clinic.

The clinic will be from 9-9:45 a.m. Saturday morning, followed by league play at 10 a.m. Games will end around 3:30 p.m.

For more information, contact Derek Harmon at 410-641-7052 or Sonya Bounds at 410-641-7052.

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St.Patrick’s indoor soccer series kicks off this weekend in OC LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor (Feb. 22, 2013) Over the next four weekends, 173 club, travel and recreational teams from the mid-Atlantic region will compete in the 25th annual St. Patrick’s Indoor Soccer Tournament Series, sponsored by the Ocean City Recreation and Parks Department. “[Participants] have a lot of fun. It’s a weekend away and they get to come to the beach,” said Recreation Supervisor Kim Kinsey, who organizes the tourna-

ment with Ron Strickler. “They love the format of the tournament. It’s competitive, but it’s fun. We have a wide variety of teams of all ability levels.”

Many teams return to compete year after year, they just move up an age division, Kinsey said.

“It’s a very popular tournament for returning teams. Some started out in the U10 division and now they’re playing as adults,” she said.

This year’s event kicks off tonight, Friday, at Northside Park on 125th Street.

Eleven boys’ and 10 girls’ U18 teams will

get the series competition under way this weekend. Games will begin at 6 p.m. tonight and run until midnight. On Saturday, matches will start at 8 a.m. and finish around 10 p.m. Competition will get started at 8 a.m. on Sunday and conclude at about 5 p.m.

Next weekend, March 1-3, 22 U10 and 30 U14 boys’ and girls’ teams will go head-to-head.

During the third weekend of matches, March 8-10, 26 U12 and 24 U16 girls’ and boys’ teams will battle.

The final weekend of competition,

March 15-17, 35 men’s and 15 women’s teams will compete in the adult open (18 and older) divisions.

Tournament matches will be six-onsix (including a goalie). Each half will be 17 minutes long. Teams are guaranteed two pool play games before they are seeded in a single elimination playoff tournament. Champions and runnersup in each division will receive a team trophy and T-shirts for all players.

For more information about the tournament, call 410-250-0125 or visit www.oceancitymd.gov.

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Decatur wrestlers finish second in Bayside championship meet LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor (Feb. 22, 2013) The Stephen Decatur wrestling team finished in second place during last weekend’s Bayside Conference championship meet in Cambridge and will send seven grapplers to the 4A/3A East Regional competition at Wilde Lake High School in Columbia.

Kent Island won the Bayside title with 294 points. Decatur scored 196 points.

“The kids that made weight wrestled pretty well. Kent Island wrestled lights out and even if we had the two kids who missed weight, I don’t think we could have beat them because they wrestled a great tournament,” said Decatur Coach Todd Martinek. Three Seahawk team captains — seniors Alex Schiffer (145) and Kaelan Paterson (152) and junior Andrew Borradaile (160) — won their divisions.

“I think I did pretty well. I don’t think I wrestled to my ability, but I definitely still came out and won it,” Schiffer said.

Schiffer edged out Kent Island’s Dimitry Callas 1-0 in the finals.

“He beat me 2-1 when we wrestled [at Stephen Decatur] so it was a pretty big win for me,” he said.

Patterson was pleased overall with his Bayside meet performance. He captured the 152-pound title by outscoring North Caroline’s Wade Bishop 4-2 in overtime.

“The finals match was pretty interest-

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Stephen Decatur wrestlers, from left, TJ Scafone (106), Nate Rosenblatt (113), Alex Schiffer (145), Kaelan Patterson (152), Andrew Borradaile (160), Adam Bargar (195) and Ryan Kail (285) will compete in the 4A/3A East Regional meet at Wilde Lake High School in Columbia, today and Saturday.

ing. It was a hard match,” he said. “It took endurance, for sure. In that overtime period I was tired, but I got the two [points].”

Borradaile pinned his first two opponents and topped Kent County’s Justin Peacock 11-8 in the finals to take home the 160-pound title.

“I wrestled [well]. In the finals match in the third period I gave up a little bit on bottom, but I was happy and now I’m just ready to move on to regionals,” he said.

Senior captain, heavyweight Ryan Kail, finished runner-up in his division. Soph-

omore TJ Scafone (106) and junior Adam Bargar (195) took third place.

Because of their top four finishes at the conference championship, six Decatur wrestlers qualified for the 4A/3A East Regional tournament, which will take place today and Saturday at Wilde Lake High School.

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Junior Nate Rosenblatt (113) placed sixth at Baysides, but he accumulated enough points (for winning matches and placing high in tournaments) during the regular season to also compete at regionals.

“We’re sending seven to regionals and I’d like to say we can send at least five to states. That’s definitely a reasonable goal,” Martinek said. “Any time you make it out of the 4A/3A East you can place because this is the toughest region in the state.”

All seven Seahawks are seeded in the top eight in their divisions. Kail (26-3) sits in the top spot at 285 pounds. Rosenblatt (23-2) and Borradaile (27-5) are seeded second in their weight classes.

“I’ll have some tough matches, but I should be in the finals if I wrestle well,” Borradaile said. “I’m excited, but I’m anxious … that’s where it really matters getting on to states by placing at regionals.”

Patterson (27-5) and Bargar (22-9) are ranked third in their divisions.

“It’s going to be tough. My first match is against a kid who placed fifth at states last year,” Patterson said. “The top five kids in my weight class are ranked in the top 14 in the state. My goal’s to place top four and go to states.”

ond, 5:57.68), sophomores Madison Tinus (100 freestyle, second, 59.71 seconds; 50 freestyle, third, 26.69 seconds) and Carly Deickman (100 breaststroke, second, 1:17.16).

Deickman, Tinus, sophomore Maria Zweifel and senior captain Julia Wellen finished in second place in the 200-yard freestyle relay race (1:55.85).

Because of her regional time, sophomore Molly Wooten (200 freestyle, fifth, 2:17.71) earned a spot at states, as well.

The girls’ 200-yard medley team of Wellen, Deickman, Williams and Tinus finished fourth at regionals, but their time of 2:09.46 was good enough to advance them to the state meet.

Wooten, Zweifel, Williams and freshman Marley Rakow placed fourth in the 400-yard freestyle relay race. Their time of 4:20.25 secured them a spot at states.

“I’m proud of the team and how we preformed at regionals. At states, we just need to persevere and give it everything we have,” Wellen said.

The Decatur boys’ team was competing for its third consecutive regional title, but came up a bit short.

Queen Anne’s won the meet with 294 points. Decatur scored 289.

“Basically, it came down to one event and we did not come out on top. I think the seniors were more disappointed than anyone else because they won it the past two years,” said Coach Damien Sanzotti.

“They preformed really well. Every single one of them dropped time.”

Senior captain Shayne Custodio won the 100-yard backstroke. His time of 56.68 seconds broke the regional meet

record (1:02.2).

Junior Jake Middleton was victorious in the 200-yard freestyle. He broke the regional meet record (1:55.94), which he set last year, by completing the 2013 race in 1:55. Middleton also broke his regional record (5:15.33) in the 500-yard freestyle races. He finished the race in 5:14.69.

Custodio, Middleton, sophomore Chris Poole and junior Cory Campbell won the 200-yard freestyle relay event (1:37.49).

Because of top three performances during the regional meet, Custodio (200 IM, second, 2:04.92) and junior Collin Bankert (100 freestyle, third, 55.35 seconds) automatically advanced to states in their events.

Senior captain Jeff Middleton will join his teammates for the state competition because of his regional times. He placed fourth in the 100-yard backstroke (1:01.88) and sixth in the 500-yard freestyle (5:51.53).

“I want to do whatever I can for my team. Make myself better to hopefully impact them a little bit,” Middleton said.

“We had a good team this year and we’ve been closer than ever. I’m proud of how everyone stepped up.”

Bankert took fifth in the regional breaststroke event and his time of 1:12.63 earned him a stop at states.

The boys’ 200-yard medley relay team of the Middletons, Custodio and Poole finished in fourth place, but their time of 1:52.83 was good enough to qualify the group for states.

Bankert, Jeff Middleton, senior captain Zack Keiser and junior Tate Socha placed seventh in the 400-yard freestyle relay race. Their time of 3:55.18 advanced them to states.

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Mallards top Royals 27-14 in first round LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor

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(Feb. 22, 2013) The Worcester Prep girls’ basketball team scored a total of 16 points in the first three quarters of Monday’s game, but the Lady Mallards netted 11 in the fourth to secure a victory in first-round action of the Eastern Shore Independent Athletic Conference tournament.

“We finally got our quick feet back on defense — we were in a slump there for a little while,” said Coach Page Rogers after Worcester’s 27-14 win over the Delmarva Christian Royals. “Offensively, if we can start to get our rhythm back and play the whole game like we did the fourth quarter. Then we’ll be in a good spot.”

The Royals held a 7-6 advantage at the end of the first quarter. The Mallards pulled ahead in the second to lead 14-9 at the halftime break.

Senior captain Molly Marshall scored Worcester’s only points of the third quarter with 12 seconds remaining. The Mallards went into the final quarter on top 16-14.

“The biggest thing was that we had to keep up our intensity on defense in the fourth quarter, but slow it down on offense and start running the plays,” Rogers said. “We needed to give each other room to move.

When we do that, we’re way more effective.”

The Berlin squad shut out Delmarva Christian 11-0 in the fourth quarter to secure the win and to advance to the ESIAC semifinals.

Marshall had eight points and 11 rebounds. Senior captain Meredith Smith chipped in with six points and 12 rebounds, and sophomore Sophie Brennan scored seven.

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Senior captain Jesse Engle logged 27 points and seven assists. Junior PJ Copes chipped in with 12 points.

The Seahawks finished the season 12-10. The four teams with the best records in the 3A East Region were seeded and the remaining squads received their bracket placement by random draw. Decatur landed in the No. 10 spot and will play the No. 7 Centennial Eagles on Tuesday in Ellicott City in first-round action.

“We need to rebound better and control the tempo of the game. We can’t control the tempo if we don’t control our turnovers,” Engle said.

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we had a lot of turnovers in the fourth quarter. As far as scoring, it was definitely our best quarter, but defensively, the first half was better,” Rogers said. “We were almost 100 percent from the foul line, which I think was the difference in the game.”

The Mallards were 11-for-16 from the foul line. The Royals hit three of their 12 shots.

Worcester and the Salisbury School Dragons went head-to-head in the ESIAC semifinals on Wednesday.

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Scafone (24-8) and Schiffer (21-2) are seeded seventh in their weight classes.

“It’s going to take a lot [to win]. Pretty much every match I have is going to be a really tough one so I just got to go out there and wrestle as well as I can,” Schiffer said.

“Hopefully, I can win regionals goal go to states.”

The top four finishers in each regional weight class will advance to the 4A/3A state championship, scheduled for March 1-2, at the University of Maryland College Park’s Cole Field House.

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Mallards win 51-42 over Jaguars to advance to ESIAC finals LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor (Feb. 22, 2013) The Worcester Prep boys’ basketball team fell behind in the third quarter of Wednesday’s Eastern Shore Independent Athletic Conference semifinals, but bounced back in the fourth to win 51-42 over the Salisbury Christian Jaguars.

Worcester led 12-10 at the end of the first quarter and outscored Salisbury Chris-

tian 9-2 in the second to go into the halftime break on top 21-12.

“Salisbury Christian, I think, is probably the best coached team in the league. I knew at halftime when we were up that in the third quarter that coach is good enough that they were going to get the job done and come back,” Prep Coach Keith Geiger said.

He was right.

The Jaguars went on an 8-0 run to pull within one point of the Mallards. The Berlin squad maintained a slight lead

until Salisbury tied the score 26-26 with 2:45 left in the third quarter. The visitors netted two shots to pull ahead 30-26.

In the final seconds of the quarter, Worcester junior Matt Reilly hit one of two fouls shots and senior Zander Farr made a lay-up to bring the Mallards within one (30-29) as they headed into the fourth quarter.

In the huddle before the start of the final quarter, Geiger asked his players if they were tired.

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and they couldn’t contain Dayona. They kept fouling her and she made her shots,” Fenzel-Mergott said.

The home team chipped away at the lead, outscoring Parkside 22-12 in the final eight minutes for the come-frombehind victory.

“We kept our composure at the end of the game,” the coach said. “I knew our defense was going to win the game for us.

We were so smart on defense.”

Sophomore Ali Beck was given the job of guarding Parkside senior Makya Alexander, who scored 36 points when the two teams previously met. Beck held her to 12 points Thursday.

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Fenzel-Mergott was also pleased with her players’ performance two days later on the road against the Indian River Indians. Decatur led 12-4 after the first quarter and 22-17 at halftime. The Seahawks added 20 points in the third quarter and held the Indians to 12. The visitors won 61-48.

“I was impressed with the girls’ hustle that game. We did a lot of really good things,” Fenzel-Mergott said.

Schorr needed 26 points to earn her 1,000th career point. She finished the game with 26 points and 13 rebounds.

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Playing at home offers a significant advantage to the Seahawks, Fenzel-Mergott said.

“We’re going to take one game at a time. We were 20-2 and now we’re back to 0-0,” she said. “We look really good.

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Junior Ryan Nally put the Mallards back on top in the opening seconds of the quarter then scored again to give his team a 33-30 lead. He sank a three to increase Worcester’s advantage to six points.

After a Salisbury Christian timeout, Farr scored and the home team now led 38-30 with about five minutes remaining.

The Jaguars never got closer than six points to the Mallards in the final minutes.

“Ryan made a couple big threes, [senior captain] Harrison [Brennan] made a three in the corner, Matt made a couple of post moves and that’s the game,” Geiger said. “And, we kept getting stop after stop on defense. I think defensively, that was a great game.”

Nally led Worcester’s with 25 points.

Brennan chipped in with 11.

The Prep squad will host the Delmarva Christian Royals today, Friday, at 5:30 p.m. for the championship title.

Geiger said Wednesday’s win was a confidence booster for tonight’s matchup.

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Top producer Laura Deeley Bren, president of Atlantic/Smith, Cropper & Deeley, presented Nicole Brushmiller with an award for Top Producer of 2012 during the company’s annual meeting on Jan. 15. Brushmiller not only exceeded her annual goals, but was the Top Producer for the second consecutive year.

Brushmiller, a seven-year veteran of the insurance industry, specializes in commercial and transportation insurance. She earned the designation of CIC (Certified Insurance Counselor) in 2011. She is vice president of Maple Shade Youth & Family Services, serves on the board of directors for the Eastern Shore Ballet Theatre, and is a member of the Wicomico Rotary Club.

She resides in Berlin with her husband and children.

LAUREN BUNTING ■ Contributing Writer (Feb. 22, 2013) With figures being reported for 2012 “At a Glance” by the Maryland Association of Realtors, we are able to take a look back at the year as a whole.

Overall, throughout the state of Maryland, the year ended with continued strong existing home sales, a reduction in inventory and some marginal increases in average and median home prices. Total existing home sales are completed transactions that include single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops.

Worcester County did stay on par with the statewide figures on existing home sales volume, with a 4.6 percent increase from 2011 to 2012 in sales volume, or in other words, units sold. This was a strong improvement over 2011’s 7 percent loss of volume from the previous year.

As far as amount of current active inventory available for sale, both statewide and Worcester County ended the year in December 2012 with a 25 percent reduction in inventory from 2011. However, statewide this reduction represents a five-month level of inventory, whereas Worcester County had a 13.9 month level of inventory. This number changes significantly each month because it is directly tied to the monthly sales for the corresponding month, so if sales volume goes down and current active inventory stays static, months of inventory figures will be inflated.

The state as a whole posted 5.2 percent and 7.2 percent increases, respectively, in average and median home prices.

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Welcoming guests to Seaside Counseling & Wellness Center, located in the Blue Heron Shopping Center on Route 50 in West Ocean City, are business partners, from left, Amy Ginnavan, Katherine Smith and Debra Dotson.

COUNSELING CENTER OPENS Grand-opening event scheduled for Feb. 28 LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor (Feb. 22, 2013) Katherine Smith, Debra Dotson and Amy Ginnavan have known each other for about 10 years, and they have all worked together. The women had been counseling residents, but it wasn’t until recently that they decided to start their own business.

“It’s exciting to take everything we’ve learned and bring it together to benefit the community,” Dotson said. “We love the community and we’re excited to help strengthen individuals and families.”

They found two units in the Blue Heron Shopping Center on Route 50 in West Ocean City and started renovating the spaces in September. The trio opened their business, Seaside Counseling & Wellness Center, and began seeing clients in December.

With more than 30 years combined experience, Smith said, “We all have a different niche we like to focus on.”

“We complement each other nicely,” she said. “We’re all very passionate about what were doing.”

Individual, family and group counseling sessions are offered. They will also visit local schools to meet with students/clients during the day.

“It makes it easier on families if they can’t bring their kids here,” Smith said.

Added Dotson, “What I enjoy about our center is that we are … focused on clients’ strengths and building on those.”

Ginnavan said the women are trained to work with all age groups, from young children to senior citizens.

Community wellness classes and continuing education courses for social workers and other professionals will also be available. They plan to offer stress relief, nutrition and meditation classes, among others, as well as social media assistant for parents.

Once the weather gets warmer, the women would

like to offer “walk and talk” therapy sessions, on the Boardwalk, beach, Assateague Island, or at any other outdoor location.

“I think people are more willing to open up [in that type of environment],” Smith said.

A grand-opening celebration is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 28, from 3-6 p.m. A ribbon cutting will take place at 4:30 p.m. All are invited to attend. Refreshments will be served.

For more information about Seaside Counseling & Wellness Center, call 410-2137875 or visit www.seasidecounselingandwellness.com.

Referrals are currently being accepted. The company works with all major insurance companies. A sliding scale is in place for those without insurance or who wish to self-pay.

Day, weekend and evening hours are available by appointment.

“Our mission is to be available when our clients need us,” Smith said.

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The Mark Fritschle Group of Condominium Realty, LTD, recently announced that the company’s sales, settlement and listing leader for January 2013 was Sheri Boston Smith.

She led the company in all categories.

She was the Top Listing, Top Selling and Top Settled company agent.

Mark Fritschle congratulated all of his associates for a record-breaking month.

Mears selected W. Thomas Mears, president and CEO of Shore Bank in Olney, Va., has been selected for the Leadership Maryland Class of 2013. Mears, a resident of Berlin, is one of 52 accomplished and talented Maryland leaders selected to participate in the eight-month program. Leadership Maryland is one of 34 state leadership programs nationwide and has graduated more than 900 statewide leaders.

Following a two-day opening retreat in April, participants will attend five two-day, and one one-day intense sessions focusing on issues, such as, economic development, education, health and human services, criminal and juvenile justice, environment, and multiculturalism/diversity. More than 100 top experts representing business, government, education, and the non-profit community will serve as panelists and guest speakers.

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(Feb. 22, 2013) Plans are underway for the 39th annual Hotel-Motel-Restaurant Association Trade Expo, held March 3-4, at the Ocean City convention center.

The newly expanded ballroom, featuring floor to ceiling windows and overlooking Assawoman Bay, will provide a stunning backdrop for Washington, D.C. Chef Mike Isabella.

Isabella will appear on stage in the Culinary Corner on Sunday, March 3, at noon and following his cooking demo will be available to sign his new “Crazy Good Italian” cookbook.

Isabella is a Washington, D.C.-based chef and restaurateur, owner of Italianinspired small plates restaurant, Graffiato, and partner of Bandolero, a modern Mexican concept in the heart of Georgetown. Isabella’s Crazy Good Italian is his first cookbook. He was named Food & Wine magazine’s The People’s Best New Chef Mid-Atlantic for 2012.

Before opening Graffiato, Isabella was the executive chef of Jose Andres’ Zaytinya. During his three-year tenure Isabella generated accolades and national attention for Washington, D.C.’s Mediterranean powerhouse restaurant.

Isabella’s formal training began at The Restaurant School in New York, taking classes and cooking his way through some of New York City’s finest establishments.

After honing his skills in the Big Apple, he travelled down the coast to Philadelphia, first as a sous chef for James Beard award winner Douglas Rodriguez at Alma de Cuba, then a host of other Stephen Starr restaurants.

At El Vez, Isabella learned the true craft of Latin cuisine under the direction of Jose Garces, and as executive sous chef of Marcus Samuelsson’s Washington Square, Isabella educated himself on the art of opening a fine dining establishment.

While Philadelphia proved to be an incredible learning experience and launching ground, Isabella still needed to find his niche. That niche came when he moved to Atlanta and joined Buckhead Life Group’s top-notch Greek restaurant, Kyma. As Chef de Cuisine of the seafoodinspired menu, Isabella learned the slight flavors and techniques of Greek cooking, as well as immersing himself in the traditions of one of the oldest cuisines in the world. While travelling through Greece

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Talking to locals and sifting through the daily markets gave Isabella a chance to truly understand these foods, and helped to form a base for his culinary imagination.

Outside the kitchen, Isabella appeared on season six of Top Chef and he was the runner-up on Top Chef All-Stars. In 2013, Isabella plans to open Greek concept, Kapnos, and Italian sandwich shop, G. These will be his third and fourth restaurants in Washington, D.C. “I’m extremely excited to have chef Isabella coming to Ocean City and I’m certain he will ‘wow’ the crowd,” said Expo Director, Susan Jones.

The OCHMRA Trade Expo has grown to be one of the area’s premier industry events. It is the place for hospitality industry buyers and sellers to meet. Attendees have the opportunity to experience what will be tomorrow’s hottest trend and to do one-stop shopping on the spot. This face-to-face interaction provides a valuable, efficient, and cost-effective opportunity to engage buyers and sellers. Rather than going door-to-door and cold calling, this regional Expo is a great way for exhibitors to generate leads in just two days.

Additionally, the Culinary Corner will feature some of the regions finest chefs doing demos throughout the show.

Maryland DNR Seafood Marketing Director, Steve Vilnit, is lining up a talented cast to showcase the many gifted chefs in our backyards. Vilnit will also be on hand to discuss the species being prepared as the chefs share their preparation techniques.

“This will be a real learning experience and inspiration for many,” said Expo Event Manager Amy Tingle.

As details emerge, complete event schedules will be posted on the Expo show site.

Expo hours are Sunday, March 3, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Monday, March 4, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Expo is limited to the trade only; to attend, guests must be in the lodging or dining business, or a liquor store, convenience store, cafeteria, nursing home, hospital or school. Exhibitors and attendees must be 21 to attend. For details, visit www.oceancitytradeexpo.com.

counties that did not post an actual increase in average and median home prices. The average sales price for Worcester County average home prices fell 4.9 percent from $279,951 in 2011 to $266,266 in 2012 and the median sales

price fell 2.2 percent year over year. On the other hand, as compared to last year’s loss in median sales price of almost 10 percent, this is a positive direction and clear improvement in sales price trend.

— Lauren Bunting is a member of the Coastal Association of Realtors and a licensed REALTOR® with Bunting Realty, Inc. in Berlin.

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Insley named SDHS Teacher of the Year Emily Insley has been named Stephen Decatur High School’s Teacher of the Year.

Insley, who is now in her sixth year at SDHS teaches French I and French II. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of Delaware, Insley moved to France, where she taught elementary school for a year. She then returned to the University of Delaware, where she obtained an additional bachelor’s degree in French education.

Insley remained at UD for a year as a tutorial assistant for students taking French before accepting her position at SDHS. Insley serves as the adviser for the Legal Interns/Mock Trial team. She also participated in a monthlong program funded by the French embassy to study the culture and perfect her language skills.

Insley and her husband, Richard, live in Wicomico County. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family, scrapbooking and playing clarinet and piano.

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Cheerleaders anddancers to performinOC this weekend (Feb. 22, 2013) Approximately 5,800 athletes will converge at the Ocean City convention center this weekend to take the stage during Reach the Beach Recreation, School and Dance Nationals.

The competition will begin tonight, Friday, at 5 p.m. and continue through Sunday at the 40th Street venue.

About 235 school and recreational cheer teams, and approximately 100 dance squads primarily from Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, New York, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., are scheduled to take part.

They will compete for an estimated $15,000 in cash prizes, trophies, banners and national championship jackets, among other items. One coach will also win a sevenday Caribbean cruise for two during this year’s event.

Reach the Beach will be filled with high-energy cheering, dancing, tumbling, twirling and tossing as boys and girls, ages 4 through high-school seniors, perform in front of thousands of spectators. Parent teams will also take the stage. They include athletes ages 18 and older.

“This weekend’s Reach the Beach Nationals is bigger than ever and jam packed with more cheer, school and dance teams,” said Season Daugherty, sales representative for Epic Brands, the parent company of Reach the Beach Nationals. “We are very excited for our two performance areas filled with top-of-thecharts production, surf board trophies, US Finals bids and of course Surfy the Spirit Shark, with teams ranging from Levels 1 to 4 and dances

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Ocean City Councilman Joe Mitrecic presents Carolee Humphreys, the 2012 OC Recreation Boosters Volunteer of the Year, with a key to the city during a ceremony last Wednesday at Northside Park on 125th Street.

HUMPHREYS NAMED 2012 VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR Hardworking, loyal and devoted, longtime member is surprised by OC Recreational Boosters award LISA CAPITELLI ■ Assistant Editor (Feb. 22, 2013) Carolee Humphreys was recognized for her years of service and named the 2012 OC Recreation Boosters Volunteer of the Year last Wednesday at Northside Park on 125th Street.

“Carolee is one of a kind.

She is a quiet, soft spoken person who has a heart of gold,” said Kate Gaddis, recreation superintendent for the Ocean City Recreation and Parks Department. “We are so fortunate

to have her as a member of our Boosters organization for many reasons. Her smile brightens the room and although she is one little lady, she does the work of many.”

Humphreys has been a member of the OC Recreation Boosters for about 10 years; she’s currently serving as the organization’s vice president.

The Ocean City resident has worked on every Booster-related event, said President Reba Felty, from selling hot chocolate to St. Patrick’s soccer tournament T-shirts. She has also volun-

teered her time during youth holiday parties and summer concerts at Sunset Park, and helped out in the wine and beer tents during the Springfest and Sunfest celebrations.

“She puts in countless volunteer hours and is the kind of person who is always quietly helping out, never saying ‘no.’ She’s hardworking, devoted and her loyalty and love for others is unmatched,” Felty said. “Carolee is 73 years young, but to know her spirit and hard work you See FEBRUARY on Page 3B

Hager to represent SES inTOTYprogram Arlene Hager is Showell Elementary School’s 2012-13 Teacher of the Year.

Hager’s parents were teachers and her mother, Willie Stroh, opened Showell Elementary in 1976 as the school’s first principal. In 2006, Hager accepted a long-term substitute position at Showell and was hired in 2007 as a kindergarten teacher.

Hager holds a Bachelor of Science degree in human resource management from Wilmington College with a Masters Intern Teaching Certification.

This year, she will graduate from Drexel University with a master’s in instruction with a concentration in reading and special education. She is Showell’s representative for the Maryland State Teacher’s Association, serves on the Minority Student Achievement Advisory Committee, acts as a student mentor and sits on Showell’s Accreditation for Growth Character Team. She belongs to the Eastern Shore Reading Council, a group that promotes literacy on the Eastern Shore.

She founded the Bishopville Children’s Care. Before Maryland had mandatory kindergarten and pre-kindergarten, Hager worked with the Maryland Committee for Children on a task force under Gov. William Donald Schaefer to develop curriculum to prepare students for first grade. She founded the county’s first Child Care Referral Service, which linked a database of 370 licensed home care providers and 30 licensed childcare centers to parents and early childhood services.

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Reveals several secrets to making light dumplings DEBORAH LEE WALKER ■ Contributing Writer (Feb. 22, 2013) The progression of reality does not always move forward; present day has many variables. My train of thought is being tugged in another direction. The distant howling of the wind is a reminder that spring is still on vacation, but the bits of greenery in the patches of bronzed colored grass are signs that change is in the air.

The occasional flash of vehicles on the road of transference is highlighted under the shimmering display of cosmic rays.

Trees with no leaves do not signify the state of being barren. Around the corner, the blessing of Mother Nature will blossom into a pageantry of vivacious foliage.

The occasional rumble in my gastropit brings me one with myself and the thought of devouring mouthwatering chicken and dumplings puts a smile on this face. But as I am contemplating ways to perfect the dish, my eyes are mesmerized by the shadows displayed on Coastal Highway.

How often do we pay attention to the background? Subordination is impera-

tive in the philosophy of cooking; the smallest details must be given the utmost consideration. What might seem trivial to some, can be the accolades of others. That being said, let us deconstruct an American favorite so full comprehension can be emulsified by the end of our discussion.

The stock is the first task at hand. Remember minutiae are the epitome of culinary feats. Before we can continue, a basic question must be explored. What is the difference between stock and broth? Even though many assume they are interchangeable, technically there is a difference. Stock consists of vegetables, meats, bones, and aromatics that are simmered for a period of time to extract flavor. Broth, on the other hand, is something you eat on its own.

The cut of meat must be taken into consideration. Dark meat will incorporate a rich flavor and at the same time keep with the theme of “tenderness” which is imperative to chicken and dumplings. The final decision is up to the individual chef.

There are several secrets to making light dumplings. Do not over-mix the batter; this stimulates the gluten, which results in tough dumplings.

Simmer the dumplings as opposed to cooking them in a rolling boil. A vigorous boiling action has a tendency to break up the dumplings. Also, some dumpling recipes include eggs, which help bind the dough. As a result, you want the temperature low enough to cook the dumplings thoroughly without causing the proteins to toughen. Do not overcrowd the pot with the little balls of joy; they need room to expand and an abundance will lower the temperature of the broth.

Intention is not always set in gold. I wanted to replace the traditional peas with an array of baby portabellas and poblano peppers and follow with drop dumplings. My thought process led me to the conclusion to forgo all-purpose flour and replace it with cake flour. Cake flour is lower in protein and will yield lighter dumplings.

But as fate dictates reality, changes must be made. The fortified broth coupled with drop dumplings would make the dish too heavy. I knew in my heart, even though it put the fear of God in me, slick dumplings were the answer. But to my surprise, they are actually quite easy to make. But being one who strives for perfection, I made two batches of slick dumplings. One comprised of cake flour and the other with all-purpose flour.

When the tasting was completed, the rich stew of aromatic vegetables and chicken needed the base of all-purpose

flour dumplings.

One quick note before I leave you.

Cooking the vegetables and chicken in a pressure cooker for a short time harmonizes the aromas and produces very tender meat. If one has not used a pressure cooker, chicken and dumplings is a great introduction.

CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS z Stew 5 pounds bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs 4 tablespoons canola oil 1/2 stick unsalted butter 4 carrots, peeled and thinly sliced 3 ribs celery, thinly sliced 1 large yellow onion, finely chopped 4 large cloves garlic, minced 5 cups chicken stock 1/4 cup whole milk 1/4 cup dry white wine 1 teaspoon dried thyme 1 teaspoon Herbs de Province 1/2 teaspoon crushed rosemary 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground pepper 2 bay leaves 2 cups baby portabella mushrooms, thinly sliced 1 poblano pepper, seeded, and thinly sliced 1. Heat oil in a pressure cooker over medium-high heat until very hot. Brown both sides of chicken for approximately 20 minutes and set aside. Remove skin See COOKING on Page 3B

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and reserve chicken fat.

2. Add butter, carrots, celery, onions, garlic, mushrooms, and poblano peppers and sautĂŠ for approximately 7 minutes.

3. Stir in flour, whisk in wine, scraping any brown bits. Add stock, milk and remaining ingredients and cook with 15 pounds of pressure for 10 minutes.

4. Run cold water over the pressure cooker to reduce the temperature. Carefully remove lid and transfer chicken to a cutting board.

Remove gristle, bones and shred chicken. Skim any fat and discard bay leaves. Place shredded chicken back into the stew and keep hot until dumplings are ready to be served. z Dumplings 2 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup whole milk reserved chicken fat 3 tablespoons canola oil 1. Mix dry ingredients in a medium bowl.

2. Heat milk until slightly warm.

3. Stir the warmed milk into the flour-mixture.

4. Add enough water to fill a Dutch oven to two-thirds capacity over medium-high heat. Add reserved chicken stock and canola oil and bring to a light boil.

5. On a very floured surface, roll out dough into long, thin strips. Then cut the strips in half.

6. Carefully place the dough strips into the flavored broth. You will need to stir the dough so they do not stick together. Drain thoroughly.

7. Layer dumplings with chicken sauce.

Secret Ingredient: Comfort. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thoughtâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;Ś John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

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Humphreys first found out she was the recipient of the annual award during the Boostersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; appreciation party in late January.

She is a member of the Volunteer of the Year committee and found it unusual when the group was not discussing nominees. That was because they knew she would be the one receiving the award. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They kept it a secret from me,â&#x20AC;?

Humphreys said.

When Felty announced Humphreys was the 2012 Boosters Volunteer of the Year last month, she was shocked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was just surprised and honored,â&#x20AC;?

Humphreys said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I enjoy doing things for the kids and giving back to the community. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most important is that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re able to raise funds for the programs here.â&#x20AC;?

In addition to her work with the Recreation Boosters, Humphreys is a member of the Quota Club of Ocean City, the Montego Bay Association and was a past Ocean City Chamber ambassador.

Humphreys is the mother of three, grandmother of four, and great-grandmother of three.

She was presented with the Volunteer of the Year Award plaque last week and Ocean City Councilman Joe Mitrecic gave her a key to the city.

The OC Recreation Boosters, a nonprofit, independent group, has chosen a volunteer to receive the annual award for the past 14 years. The group works throughout the year to raise money to help offset the cost of recreation programs. The organization is always looking for additional volunteers.

During Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ceremony, Mitrecic also read a proclamation from

Mayor Rick Meehan, who was unable to attend, stating that February is Sportsmanship month in Ocean City.

Sportsmanship was again emphasized during the Ocean City Recreation and Parks Departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s winter boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and girlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; basketball and indoor soccer leagues. The departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sportsmanship Counts!â&#x20AC;? campaign, now in its fourth year, focuses on five specific characteristics: respect, fairness, integrity, responsibility and perseverance.

Athletes chosen by their coaches and coordinators who exemplified good sportsmanship while participating in the basketball and indoor soccer leagues received certificates on Wednesday.

Sara Mitrecic, 13, a Stephen Decatur Middle School student, and coach Brian Shockley, were presented with the 2012 Mid-Atlantic Recreation and Parks Sports Alliance Good Sport Awards.

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Solo and partner stunts are scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. tonight (Friday). The recreation and school cheerleading, both group and individual competitions will kick off at 7 a.m. on Saturday and conclude late in the evening. Individual and team dance routines will be featured on

Sunday, beginning at 9 a.m.

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His love for clay started at just 5 years old, when he was at a craft fair in Asheville, N.C. He has been producing his original design stoneware for retail for nearly 40 years.

In addition to teaching classes locally, he has also taught in Virginia and as far away as Hawaii and Austria.

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(Feb. 22, 2013) Those in the Ocean City area who have been looking for a pottery class won’t have to look any further. Starting in March, the Ocean City Center for the Arts will offer pottery classes.

This new studio is Ocean City’s only pottery studio.

There will be classes for ages 5 through adult with weekday, evening and Saturday classes available. Students can learn hand building, wheel throwing, pinch, coil and slab techniques as well as firing and glazing. The classes will be held at the new

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GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You’re enjoying this creative period. But by midweek, you’ll need to emphasize your more pragmatic talents as you consider a risky but potentially lucrative move.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) An unexpected rejection could turn into something positive if you pocket your pride and ask for advice on how you can make changes that will make the difference.

LEO (July 23 to August 22) Your Lion’s heart gives you the courage to push for answers to a job-related situation. Stay with it. You’ll soon find more believers coming out the ranks of the doubters.

VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Your curiosity pays off this week as you push past the gossip to find the facts. What you ultimately discover could lead you to make some changes in your plans.

LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) A new sense of enthusiasm helps get you out of on-the-job doldrums and back into a productive phase. Family matters also benefit from your more positive attitude.

SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) A bit of nostalgia is fine. But don’t stay back in the past too long or you might miss seeing the signpost up ahead pointing the way to a new opportunity.

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“I hope to share my knowledge to make people comfortable with working with clay,” Hertz said. “I am particularly eager to teach people who may have had difficulty before and break it down into smaller steps, so they can express themselves in this wonderful medium.”

Hertz’s work can be viewed on his Web site, www.hertzpottery.com.

For more information about the pottery studio or to register for classes, visit www.artleagueofoceancity.or g or call 410-524-9433.

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APPEARING LIVE 19TH HOLE BAR & GRILL 9636 Stephen Decatur Highway West Ocean City 410-213-9204 Feb. 22: Chris Button, 6-10 p.m.

Feb. 23: Paul Brion, 6-10 p.m.

GALAXY 66 66th Street, bayside 410-723-6762 Feb. 22: Philly George, 8 p.m. to midnight Feb. 23: DJ Rob Cee, 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.

ADOLFO’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT 13th Street and the Boardwalk in the Beach Plaza Hotel 410-289-4001 Feb. 22-23: Rhonda Apple and Dale Britt

HARBORSIDE BAR & GRILL 12841 S. Harbor Road West Ocean City 410-213-1846 Feb. 22: Ladies Night w/DJ Billy T, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Feb. 23: Simple Truth, 2-6 p.m.; DJ Jeremy, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Feb. 24: Opposite Directions, 2-6 p.m.; DJ Billy T/DJ Bigler, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Feb. 28: Opposite Directions, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

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BJ’S ON THE WATER 75th Street and the bay 410-524-7575 Feb. 22: Funk-O-Licious, 9 p.m.

Feb. 23: Mood Swingers, 9 p.m.

Feb. 27: Thin Ice, 5-8 p.m.

CAPTAIN’S TABLE 15th St. & Baltimore Ave. 410-289-7192 www.captainstableoc.com Every Saturday: Phil Perdue on piano

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Everett Spells FAGER’S ISLAND 60th Street and the bay 410-524-5500 Feb. 22: DJ Rob Cee, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Feb. 23: DJ Groove, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.; Lima Bean Riot, 10 p.m.

Feb. 24: Jazz Brunch w/ Everett Spells, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

BIG BANG BABY Seacrets: Feb. 23, 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.

JOHNNY’S PIZZA & PUB 56th Street, bayside 410-524-7499 Feb. 22: Opposite Directions Feb. 23: Save the Day Dave Sherman

COTTAGE CAFÉ Route 1, Bethany Beach, Del. 302-539-8710 Every Friday: DJ Bump, 5-8 p.m.

Every Tuesday: Pub Party Trivia w/DJ Bump, 6-9 p.m.

HOUSE OF WELSH 1106 Coastal Highway, Fenwick Island, Del. 888-666-0728 302-541-0728 Every Friday: DJ Norm, 3-6 p.m.; Tony Vega, 6-10 p.m.

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HARPOON HANNA’S Route 54 and the bay Fenwick Island, Del. 800-227-0525 302-539-3095 Feb. 22: Dave Hawkins, 7-11 p.m.

Feb. 23: Dave Sherman, 7-11 p.m.

Feb. 26: Team Trivia, 7 p.m.

Feb. 28: Texas Holdem’ Poker Tournament, 7 p.m.

HIGH STAKES Route 54, Fenwick Island, Del. 302-537-6971 Every Sunday (except St. Pats): High Stakes Bingo Feb. 22: Familiar Soul Band Feb. 23: Chris Button and Joe Mama HOOTERS Rt. 50 & Keyser Point Rd. West Ocean City 410-213-1841 Feb. 23: Randy Lee Ashcraft, 7-11 p.m.

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OCEAN CLUB NIGHTCLUB In the Horizons Restaurant In the Clarion Fontainebleau Hotel 101st Street and the ocean 410-524-3535 Feb. 22: Power Play SEACRETS 49th Street and the bay 410-524-4900 Feb. 22: Face Parade, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Feb. 23: Big Bang Baby, 10 to 2 a.m.; Full Circle 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS Johnny’s Pizza & Pub: Feb. 22; Harborside Bar & Grill: Feb. 24, 6-2 p.m.

Randy Ashcraft SMITTY MCGEE’S Route 54 West Fenwick Island, Del. 302-436-4716 Every Tuesday: Let’s Do Trivia, 7 p.m.

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DEATH BY CHOCOLATE Twenty West Ocean City merchants served up an assortment of free chocolaty treats to those participating in the sixth annual Death By Chocolate event in on Feb. 17. The game, designed to take “players” to businesses throughout West Ocean City, provides them with an opportunity to patronize places they have not been to before. The theme of this year’s event was “Going to the Zoo.” Participants visited the participating businesses Sunday, in any order, find a zoo animal and then have their card validated. Players also had to solve a final clue to be eligible for prizes.

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■ 32 PALM, 32nd Street, in the Hilton Suites, Ocean City 410-289-2525 / www.ocmdrestaurants. com / $$ / V-MC-AEDIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Western Caribbean cuisine, Eastern Shore favorites, gourmet and tasty liquid desserts.

■ ADOLFO’S, 13th Street, on the Boardwalk, Ocean City 410-289-4001 / www.ocadolfos.com / $$ / V-MC-AE / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Northern and southern Italian dishes, prepared fresh daily. Quiet, intimate atmosphere for couples, room for large families or choose to enjoy our outside seating with views of the ocean.

■ BJ’S ON THE WATER, 75th Street, Ocean City 410-524-7575 / www.bjsonthewater.com / $-$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Open year-round. Entire dining menu served 11 a.m. to 1:30 a.m., seven days a week. Daily specials, daily duck feeding. Entertainment every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. No cover. Available for parties and banquets. Indoor and outdoor dining.

■ BLUE FISH JAPANESE & CHINESE RESTAURANT AND SUSHI BAR, 94th Street, Ocean City 410-524-3983 / www.bluefishoc.com / $-$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Full bar / Japanese and Chinese restaurant and sushi bar with beer, wine and cocktails. Dine in, take out and delivery available. Open Monday-Friday, 11:30 a.m.; Saturday and Sunday, noon.

■ CAPTAIN’S TABLE RESTAURANT, 15th Street and the Boardwalk, Ocean City 410-289-7192 / www.captainstableoc.com / $$-$$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Family-owned, serving fine seafood, steaks and poultry on the third floor of the Courtyard by Marriott. Open 7 days a week, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner.

■ DUFFY’S TAVERN, 130th Street, Montego Bay Shopping Center, Ocean City 410-250-1449 / $ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Unique Irish tavern serving the best steaks, seafood and over-stuffed sandwiches. A local’s favorite with authentic Irish specialities, including shepard’s pie and corned beef and cabbage. Outdoor seating available. Open for lunch and dinner.

■ FAGER’S ISLAND RESTAURANT & BAR, 60th Street on the bay, Ocean City 410524-5500 / www.fagers.com / $$-$$$ / VMC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted in the dining room only / Children’s menu / Full bar / Upscale restaurant on the bay. Casual fine dining, fresh fish, prime rib and seafood. Lighter fare menu served on our

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■ FRESCO’S, 82nd Street, Ocean City 410-524-8202 / www.ocfrescos.com / $$$$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / On the bay, serving seafood, steaks and pasta in an intimate atmosphere. Reservations highly recommended.

■ GALAXY 66 BAR & GRILLE, 66th Street, Ocean City 410-723-6762 / $$-$$$ / V-MAE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Full bar / Contemporary restaurant offering light fare and full entrees. Award- winning wine list, signature drinks and cocktails.

■ GIUSEPPE O’LEARY, Sunset Avenue, West Ocean City 410-213-2868 / www.submarinaoc.com / $-$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Full bar / Featuring homemade Italian cuisine in a cozy atmosphere. Open year-round. Happy hour food and drink specials Monday-Friday, 4-7 p.m.

■ GREENE TURTLE NORTH, 116th Street, Ocean City 410-723-2120 / www.thegreeneturtle.com / $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / The Turtle, est. 1976, is an Ocean City tradition with a friendly staff, great food and something for everyone! Menu favorites are homemade crab cakes, kids’ menu, salads, burgers, wings and more! Featuring weekday lunch specials and happy hour, 50 high-def flat screen TVs, game room, gift shop, carry out, party trays, nightly drink specials, Keno, MD lottery, DJs with dance floor. Open 11 a.m. to 2 a.m., year-round.

■ HARBORSIDE BAR & GRILL, 12841 S. Harbor Road, West Ocean City 410-2131846 / www.ocharborside.com / $$ / VMC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Open seven days a week, 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Casual waterfront dining serving seafood, steaks, sandwiches, salads, wraps and pasta.

Home of the “Original Orange Crush.” Entertainment Thursday through Sunday.

■ HARPOON HANNA’S RESTAURANT & BAR, Route 54 and the bay, Fenwick Island, Del. www.harpoonhannasrestaurant.com / $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Casual waterfront restaurant serving lunch, dinner. Fresh fish, seafood, steaks, sandwiches and allyou-can-eat Alaskan crab legs. Open yearround.

■ HEMINGWAY’S AT THE CORAL REEF, 17th Street, in the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites, Ocean City 410-289-2612 / www.ocmdrestaurants.com / $$$ / V-MCAE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Elegant dining room, Floridian/island-style cuisine. Sea-food, tropical salsas, grilled steaks, pork chops, grilled pineapple, banana fritters, entree salads.

■ HIGH STAKES BAR & GRILL, Route 54, Fenwick Island, Del. 302-537-6971 / $-$$ / V-M-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Carry-out available / Full bar / Casual dining, daily happy hour and daily food specials. Live entertainment.

■ HOOTERS, three Ocean City locations: 123rd Street, Ocean City 410-250-7081, Fifth Street, on the Boardwalk, Ocean City 410-289-2690 and Route 50, West Ocean City 410-213-1841 / www.hootersofoc.com / $-$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS. Things are always getting better at Hooters! Fresh menu offering

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a number of ground chuck burgers, green salads, world famous chicken wings with 11 flavorful sauces and a fun children’s menu.

Relax in the beach atmosphere or enjoy the outdoor seating. Happy hour every day, 3-7 p.m. Full bar available. Authentic Hooters merchandise in kids and adult sizes. Enjoy all the sports packages on large, flat screen TVs and great service by the delightful Hooters girls. Live entertainment. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. Find out why we say, “Hooters makes you happy!”

■ HORIZONS OCEANFRONT RESTAURANT, 101st Street, Ocean City 410-5243535 / www.clarionoc.com / $-$$ ($20-45) / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Open tables / Children’s menu / Full bar / Proud to have Chef Shawn Reese creating beach-inspired dishes in both oceanfront restaurants, Horizons and Breaker’s Pub. New all-day menu, available 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., features many favorites, as well as exciting new creations with a local flare.

Deluxe Sunday breakfast buffet open yearround and AUCE prime rib, crab legs and seafood buffet available most weekends.

■ HOUSE OF WELSH, 1106 Coastal Highway, Fenwick Island, Del. 1-800-311-2707 / www.houseofwelsh.net / $, $$ / V-MC-AEDIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Specializing in steaks and seafood. Open daily. Happy hour all day and night. Entertainment Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Casual attire.

■ JOHNNY’S PIZZA PUB, 56th Street, Ocean City 410-524-7499 / www.johnnys56.com / $ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Pizza, subs, wings, salads, beer, live music, high definition TVs, surf, movies, BlueRay. ■ JR’S THE ORIGINAL PLACE FOR RIBS, 61st and 131st streets, Ocean City 410250-3100, 410-524-7427 / www.jrsribs.com / $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / The place for ribs since 1981.

Family-friendly dining. Angus steaks, jumbo lump crab cakes, prime rib, seafood, chicken. Early bird.

■ JULES FINE DINING, 118th Street, Ocean City 410-524-3396 / www.ocjules.com / $$, $$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Local fare, global flair. Fresh seafood year-round, fresh local produce.

■ OCEAN SIDE SUB SHOP, 205 Coastal Highway, Fenwick Island 302-539-5388, 410-250-2695 / $ / V-MC-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Serving pizza, subs, cheese steaks and munchies to locals and visitors for more than 30 years.

Open for lunch and dinner. Take-out available.

■ OSTERIA FRASCHETTI, Route 50, West Ocean City 410-213-7717 / www.ocitalianfood.com / $-$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Full bar / Serving homemade Italian cuisine, steaks, seafood, chicken, pork and pasta. Elegant dining room with fireplace. Early bird specials every day from 5-6 p.m.

■ PHILLIPS CRAB HOUSE, 20th Street, Ocean City 410-289-6821 / www.phillipsseafood.com / $$ / V-MC-AEDIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / The original Phillips, serving the finest seafood since 1956. Complete with all-you-can-eat seafood buffet, a

la carte menu and carryout counter. Daily early bird specials and plenty of free parking.

■ PONZETTI’S PIZZA, 144th Street, Ocean City www.ponzettispizza.com / $ / MC / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Italian dinners, subs and homemade pizza. Happy hour Monday through Friday, 3-6 p.m. Sports bar, live music on weekends. Light fare served till 1 a.m. Carry out available.

■ POPEYE’S LOUISIANA KITCHEN, Route 50, West Ocean City 443-664-2105 / $ / V-MC / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Family restaurant. Eat-in, carry out or drive-thru. Open seven days, year-round. Every Tuesday, two-piece chicken for 99 cents. Every Wednesday, free kids meal with purchase of combo.

■ REFLECTIONS RESTAURANT, 67th Street, in the Holiday Inn Oceanfront, Ocean City 410-524-5252 / www.ocmdrestaurants.com / $$$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Tableside flambé dining. Casually elegant, cuisine prepared tableside in the European tradition. Private dining rooms.

Eclectic chef’s specials accompanied by an award-winning wine list.

■ SEACRETS, 49th Street, Ocean City 410-524-4900 / www.seacrets.com / $$ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Island atmosphere. Soups, salads, Jamaican jerk chicken, appetizers, sandwiches, paninis, pizza and fresh seafood.

■ SMITTY McGEE’S, 37234 Lighthouse Road, West Fenwick Island, Del. 302-4364716 / www.smittymcgees.com / $$ / VMC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / No children’s menu / Full bar / Casual. Big menu, including hot wings and drinks.

■ THE COTTAGE CAFE, Route 1 (across from Sea Colony), Bethany Beach, Del. 302-539-8710 / www.cottagecafe.com / $, $$ / V-MC-AE / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Seafood, kids’ menu, happy hour specials. Lunch and dinner daily. Breakfast buffet on weekends.

■ THE STERLING SEAFOOD GRILL & OYSTER BAR, 67th Street, in the Holiday Inn Oceanfront, Ocean City 410-524-5252 / www.ocmdrestaurants.com / $$ / V-MC-AEDIS / Reservations accepted / Children’s menu / Full bar / Fabulous raw bar serving the freshest raw oysters and clams, steamed shrimp, crab legs, mussels and oyster stew, made to order. “Fresh off the grill” items include rockfish, tuna, mahi mahi and salmon. Happy hour specials daily, 4-6 p.m.

■ WHISKERS PUB, 120th Street, OC Square, Ocean City 410-524-2609 / www.whiskerspub.com / $ / V-MC-AE-DIS / No reservations required / Children’s menu / Full bar / Old World saloon-type feel, Whisker’s is famous for its Certified Angus® burgers and delicious casual fare, as well as its entertaining atmosphere and photo lined walls of famous and infamous “whiskers.”

Enjoy flat screen TVs to watch your favorite sports. Open year-round, 11:30 a.m. to 2 a.m., serving lunch and dinner daily. Happy hour every day 4-7 p.m. Nightly food specials.

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FRIDAY, FEB. 22 REACH THE BEACH OC REC/SCHOOL OPEN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2013 — Ocean City convention center, 4001 Coastal Highway, public attendance from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Recreation and school cheerleading teams from around the world gather to compete. Prize money awarded. Professionally choreographed awards ceremony. Admission costs $20 for adults and $14 for children and seniors. Info: www.acdaspirit.com or www.theepicbrands.com. Participants should contact the official housing bureau for this event: www.globaljbs.com/event/rtboc13.

ST. PATRICK’S INDOOR SOCCER TOURNEY Northside Park, 200 125th St., in Ocean City.

Estimated attendance of more than 150 teams over four weekends, Feb. 22-24 (U18), March 13 (U10 and U14), March 8-10, (U12 and U16), March 15-17 (adult). Registration: www.oceancitymd.gov. Info: 410-250-0125.

A MUSICAL PERFORMANCE: TOO HUMAN — Ocean Pines library, 11107 Cathell Road, 2 p.m. Songwriters and performers Ellen Schwartz and Roger Bruno play what they term “good music with a lot of heart.” Covering jazz standards from the American Songbook but with a fresh interpretation that brings new life to

classic songs. Sample songs at www.toohumanonline.com. Info: 410-208-4014.

BINGO — Knights of Columbus, 9901 Coastal Highway (rear of St. Luke’s Church) in Ocean City.

Doors open at 5 p.m. and games begin at 6:30 p.m. Refreshments for sale. Info: 410-524-7994.

PURIM POT LUCK DINNER AND COSTUME PARTY — Temple Bat Yam, 11036 Worcester Highway, Berlin, 6:30 p.m. Wear a costume and take a meat dish. Services will follow at 8 p.m.

Info: Jaime, 410-641-4311.

LONGABERGER BASKET/VERA BRADLEY BINGO — Bishopville Volunteer Fire Department, 10709 Bishopville Road. Doors open at 6 p.m., games begin at 7 p.m. All baskets are filled, raffles, 50/50, door prizes and refreshments. Cost is $20 in advance. Proceeds benefit The American Cancer Society. Tickets: Tammy, 410-352-3755 or 410-726-6043.

SATURDAY, FEB. 23 FURNACE TOWN LIVING HERITAGE MUSEUM — Guides Joe Fehrer and Gary Marine will lead a nature hike exploring night sights and sounds of the Pocomoke Forest and Nassawango Swamp. Walkers should meet at

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CREATING COMICS — Learn to create your own comic book. Create a story, layout pages, draw, link and letter. For children & adults interested in creating comics, graphic novels or sequential art. Free with paid admission, all supplies will be provided. Info: 410-957-9933 or www.delmarvadiscoverycenter.org CHICKEN & DUMPLING FUNDRAISER Sponsored by the Sturgis One Room School Museum, Inc. and takes place at Pocomoke City Volunteer Fire Company Community Center, 1410 Market St., Pocomoke, 6 p.m. Live entertainment; speaker Millicent D. West, motivational community leader; and Pocomoke High School student involvement, as part of Black History Month. The winner of the “I Have a Dream” essay contest will read his or her essay.

The Pocomoke High School show choir will perform black gospel. Tickets cost $20 and are available at downtownpocomoke@gmail.com, City Hall or the Delmarva Discovery Center. Info: Angela Manos, 410-603-1178 or downtownpocomoke@gmail.com.

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PANCAKE BREAKFAST — VFW, Post 8296, 104 66th St., bayside in Ocean City, 8-11 a.m. A $5 donation for all-you-can-eat pancakes or 2-22, two eggs, two pancakes and two bacon slices, includes coffee and juice. Bloody Marys cost $3. Info: 410-524-8196.

REACH THE BEACH OC REC/SCHOOL OPEN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2013 — Ocean City convention center, 4001 Coastal Highway, public attendance from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Recreation and school cheerleading teams from around the world gather to compete. Prize money awarded. Professionally choreographed awards ceremony. Admission costs $20 for adults and $14 for children and seniors. Info: www.acdaspirit.com or www.theepicbrands.com. Participants should contact the official housing bureau for this event: www.globaljbs.com/event/rtboc13.

ST. PATRICK’S INDOOR SOCCER TOURNEY Northside Park, 200 125th St., in Ocean City.

Estimated attendance of more than 150 teams over four weekends, Feb. 22-24 (U18), March 13 (U10 and U14), March 8-10, (U12 and U16), March 15-17 (adult). Registration: www.oceancitymd.gov. Info: 410-250-0125.

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OUT&ABOUT Continued from Page 9B BOGGS TOWN MEETING — Ocean Pines library, 11107 Cathell Road, 10 a.m. All are welcome to attend and participate in dialog about current issues of interest to Ocean Pines and northern Worcester County, including updates on natural gas and development along Route 589. Guest speaker will be Dr. Jerry Wilson, superintendent of the Worcester County School System. Info: 410-641-6158.

A WILD GAME FEAST — Sons of American Legion Squadron 87, 608A Cross St., Cambridge, 1-6 p.m. Rabbit, raccoon, muskrat, beaver, duck and deer plus one side of string beans or kale, potatoes and macaroni and cheese and a roll. Cost is $7. Proceeds help with Hunt Valley Convention. Call Larry at 410-253-4563 or John at 410-819-6977.

BEEF & DUMPLING DINNER — American Legion Post 123, 10111 Old Ocean City Road, Berlin, 4 p.m. Cost is $10 for adults and $5 for children.

APPLEBEE’S FLAPJACK BREAKFAST — Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar, 2703 North Salisbury Blvd., Salisbury, 8-10 a.m. Includes three pancakes, two pieces of sausage and ulimited beverages including coffee, orange juice, soda and tea. Benefiting the Holly Center Auxiliary, Inc. Cost is $7 for adults and $4.50 for kids 11 and younger. Tickets: Marlina Belote, 410-572-6204 or Irene Dendorfer, 410-572-6203.

PURSE BINGO — Stephen Decatur High School, cafeteria, 9913 Seahawk Road, Berlin. Doors

open at 5 p.m., bingo begins at 6 p.m. Featuring Coach, Vera Bradley and more. Tickets cost $20 in advance or $25 at the door and includes 20 games and one door prize ticket. Benefiting the school’s 13U Hudson and 15/16U Ferro baseball teams. Tickets: Kim Hudson, 410-713-2376 or Angela Baker, 410-251-9242.

SUNDAY, FEB. 24 REACH THE BEACH OC REC/SCHOOL OPEN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2013 — Ocean City convention center, 4001 Coastal Highway, public attendance from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Recreation and school cheerleading teams from around the world gather to compete. Prize money awarded. Professionally choreographed awards ceremony. Admission costs $20 for adults and $14 for children and seniors. Info: www.acdaspirit.com or www.theepicbrands.com. Participants should contact the official housing bureau for this event: www.globaljbs.com/event/rtboc13.

ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT BREAKFAST BUFFET — Knights of Columbus, 9901 Coastal Highway (rear of St. Luke’s Church) in Ocean City, 8:3011:30 a.m. With coffee and juice. Cost is $8 for adults, children 11 years and younger eat at half price. Info: 410-524-7994.

ST. PATRICK’S INDOOR SOCCER TOURNEY — Northside Park, 200 125th St., in Ocean City.

Estimated attendance of more than 150 teams over four weekends, Feb. 22-24 (U18), March 13 (U10 and U14), March 8-10, (U12 and U16), March 15-17 (adult). Registration: www.oceancitymd.gov. Info: 410-250-0125.

SPORTS CARD, COMIC BOOK, COLLECTIBLE SHOW — Aetna Fire Hall, 400 Ogletown Road, Newark, Del., 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. More than 50 tables of area dealers. Admission costs $2 for adults, children 12 and younger admitted free.

Reservations: 302-983-2636, a2zshows1@ yahoo.com or www.a2zshows1.com.

ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT BREAKFAST BUFFET — Knights of Columbus, 9901 Coastal Highway (rear of St. Luke’s Church) in Ocean City, 8:3011:30 a.m. With coffee and juice. Cost is $8 for adults, children 11 years and younger eat at half price. Info: 410-524-7994.

OYSTER ROAST — Sponsored by Snow Hill Area Chamber of Commerce, 1-5 p.m. All-you-can-eat oysters and all-you-can-drink from the Chamber Beer Bar. Music provided by The Stims. Tickets cost $35. Paypal is available at www.snowhillareachamber.com.

‘PRECIOUS MEMORIES’ GOSPEL CONCERT Friendship United Methodist Church, 10537 Friendship Road, Berlin, 7 p.m. Precious Memories providing a night of music with singing, stringed instruments and keyboard. No tickets required, but a love offering will be taken. Info: 410-641-2578.

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Parkway, White Horse Park. Women interested in learning and singing in a barbershop format are welcome. Info: 410-208-4171.

HAND DANCING — House of Welsh, 1106 Coastal Highway, Fenwick, Del. Free lessons from 6-7 p.m., open dancing 7-10 p.m. No cover charge.

Info: DC Hand Dance Club, 302-541-0728.

WRITING FOR WELLNESS — Ocean Pines library, small meeting room, 11107 Cathell Road, 1:30 p.m. A writing group that uses expressive writing exercises to stimulate the writing process for creative expression and to process emotions. No prior writing experience needed. Info: 410-208-4014.

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY MEETING — Berlin group No. 169, Atlantic General Hospital, conference room 1, 9733 Healthway Drive in Berlin, 5-6:30 p.m. TOPS is a support and educational group promoting weight loss and healthy lifestyle. It meets weekly. Info: Edna Berkey, 410-251-2083.

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PLAY TIME — Berlin library, 220 N. Main St., 10:30 a.m. Parents and children, infant to 5 years old, explore educational toys together in an interactive, free play program. Info: 410-641-0650.

DELMARVA SWEET ADELINE CHORUS MEETS WEEKLY — The Delmarva Sweet Adeline Chorus, under the direction of Carol Ludwig, meets each Monday from 7-9 p.m., at the Ocean Pines Community Center, 239 Ocean

AMERICA’S BOATING COURSE — Ocean Pines library, 11107 Cathell Road. Registration is at 6:30 p.m., followed by the first class from 7-9 p.m. Anyone born after July 1, 1972 must complete a safe boating class to operate a recreational vessel or

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OUT&ABOUT personal watercraft in Maryland. Students may be eligible for six months free membership in the Ocean City Power Squadron. There is a nominal charge for course materials. Register: 410-7261509, 410-641-6535 or 410-641-8940. Info: www.ocpowersquadron.org.

SOUP BOWL PROJECT — Berlin Intermediate School, 309 Franklin Ave., 5-8 p.m. Soup and art. A large selection of student and staff made soup bowls will be for sale. Purchase a bowl ($5-$20 depending on size) and then fill it with soup that has been donated by local restaurants. Proceeds will go to the BIS KIDS program.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 27 BINGO — Every Wednesday at Ocean City Elks Lodge 2645, 138th Street across from Fenwick Inn. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., games start 6:30 p.m. A $1,000 jackpot available, food, snacks

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and non-alcoholic beverages. No one under 18 years allowed in the hall during bingo. Info: 410250-2645.

DELMARVA HAND DANCING CLUB — Meets every Wednesday at Skyline Bar & Grille at The Fenwick Inn, 138th Street and Coastal Highway in Ocean City. Beginner and intermediate lessons, 5:30-6:30 p.m., followed by dancing until 9 p.m. Jitterbug, swing, cha-cha to the sounds of the ’50s, ’60s and Carolina beach music. All are welcome. Discounted food and drink prices.

Info: 302-337-3638.

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY MEETING — Ocean City library, 10003 Coastal Highway, Wednesdays, 4:45-6 p.m. TOPS is a support and educational group promoting weight loss and healthy lifestyle. It meets weekly. Info: 302436-3682.

WINTER/SPRING ADULT ED — Temple Bat Yam, 11036 Worcester Highway, Berlin, Feb. 27, March 13, 27, April 10, 24 and May 8. Classes

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taught by Rabbi Susan Warshaw. Mussar and Introduction to Talmud, on Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. to noon and noon to 1:30 p.m. respectively.

Take a lunch. Info: Jaime, 410-641-4311.

STORY TIME — Ocean City library, 10003 Coastal Highway, 10:30 a.m. Stories, rhymes, finger plays, music and crafts for children ages 2-5. Info: 410-524-1818.

YOUNG AND RESTLESS — Ocean Pines library, 11107 Cathell Road, 10:30 a.m. Creative science, art and music activities for children ages 3-5. Dress for a mess. Call ahead to reserve your space: 410-208-4014.

‘HOT BUTTERED NUGGETS’ PERFORMANCE Ocean Pines library, 11107 Cathell Road, 2 p.m. A swingin’ quartet impersonating all the vintage stars and groups from the early days.

Info: 410-208-4014.

‘LULA WASHINGTON DANCE THEATRE’ PERFORMANCE — Owens Campus of Delaware

Technical Community College, 18800 Seashore Highway, Georgetown, Del. Info: 302-856-5400.

‘GETTING TO KNOW YOU … AGAIN’ VIDEO SERIES — Brandywine Senior Living at Fenwick Island, 21111 Arrington Drive, Selbyville, Del., 2:30 p.m. Part II - Communicatign with Someone Who Has Alzheimer’s Disease. A five part educational video series as part of Brandywine’s Lifelong Learning Signature Program.

Info: 302-436-0808.

MARYLAND COASTAL BAYS GO GREEN SOCIAL — Ocean Pines Country Club, 100 Clubhouse Drive, 5-7 p.m. Maryland Coastal Bays Program, Ocean Pines Environment & Natural Assets Advisory Committee, the Lower Shore Land Trust, Assateague Island Alliance, Ocean City Surfriders, the Berlin Library sustainable Garden group, the Worcester County Garden Club, Tri County Bird Club and the Oyster Recovery Partnership will showcase their causes and promote volunteer opportunities. Happy hour Continued on Page 12B

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OUT&ABOUT Continued from Page 11B drink specials and hors d’oeuvres. Free and open to the public. Info: Sandi, sandis@mdcoastalbays.org or 410-213-2297, Ext. 107.

SIMPLE SUPPER — Knights of Columbus, 9901 Coastal Highway (rear of St. Luke’s Church) in Ocean City, last Wednesday of each month, 5-7 p.m. Cost is $5 for adults and $2 for children 11 and younger. Reservations: 410-524-7994.

THURSDAY, FEB. 28 WEEKLY MEETING & INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS CEREMONY — New Bethel United Methodist Church, Germantown Rd, Berlin.

6 p.m. meeting starts, 7 p.m. Installation of Officers and Meet & Greet Reception. Rev. Helen Lockwood Performs Ceremony. Everyone is invited to attend.

SOUP SALE — Atlantic United Methodist Church, 105 Fourth St., in Ocean City, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Fresh, homemade hot soups and biscuits and desserts. Carry-out available. Info: 410-289-7430.

STORY TIME — Ocean Pines library, 11107 Cathell Road, 10:30 a.m. Stories, rhymes, finger plays, music and crafts for children ages 2-5.

Info: 410-208-4014.

FIRESIDE CHAT — Berlin library, 220 N. Main St., 3 p.m. Monthly book discussion. Take a book you want to discuss. Get ideas for new authors to try. Info: 410-641-0650.

REPUBLICAN WOMEN OF WORCESTER COUNTY MEETING AND LUNCHEON — DeNovo’s Trattoria, 11310 Manklin Creek Road, South Gate, Ocean Pines. Doors open at 10:30 a.m., meeting at 11 a.m. and lunch at noon.

Beau Oglesby, Worceseter County States Attorney, will inform the group of his duties and what is happening in Worcester County. Deadline is Feb. 26. Reservations: Bev Bigler, 410-2086018 or cwcandlewood@mchsi.com.

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A roundup of what’s been going on in the resort area IRISH KEMP ■ Contributing Writer

DEMOCRAT CLUB OF WORCESTER COUNTY MEETING — Ocean Pines Community Center, Assateague Room, 235 Ocean Parkway, 7 p.m.

After a brief mixer, Kate Patton, Executive Director of the Lower Shore Land Trust, will speak on land preservation issues important to all lower shore residents and landowners. All Democrats and interested Independents are welcome.

BEACH SINGLES — Every Thursday, Beach Singles 45-Plus meets for happy hour at Harpoon Hanna’s, Route 54 and the bay, Fenwick Island, Del., 4 p.m. Info: Arlene, 302-436-9577; Kate, 410-524-0649; or Dianne, 302-541-4642.

Charlie, Ed and Carlee Holson and Joyce having fun during a Mardi Gras celebration.

BINGO — American Legion Post 166, 2308 Philadelphia Ave., in Ocean City, every Thursday, year round. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., games start at 7 p.m. Food available. Open to the public. Info: 410-289-3166.

ONGOING EVENTS WATERCOLOR EXHIBIT — Ocean Pines library, 11107 Cathell Road, through March. Featuring Barbara Doyle Schmidt. Info: 410-208-4014.

Have an Undersea Adventure With US At Old Pro Golf on 68th Street Fundraiser to Benefit

Relay For Life

Sunday, March 3, 2013 2-4pm $10 per person includes drink and snack

Silent Auction * 50/50 * Raffles *Bake Sale Many Vendors … “31”, jewelry, local artists …

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Party geared for ALL Please call Eileen Dudley for details #443-880-7180!

Everybody partied hearty at the Valentine’s Day dinner’dance at the Clarion.

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The kitchen crew responsible the delicious dinner served during the Polish dinner/dance.

Polish people love to party around Ocean City with friends.

Friends celebrate Rick Hansonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birthday during the Polish event.

The Knights of Columbus men hosted a lunch for the ladies.

Everybody danced to the music of joy during the Polish dinner/dance at St. Andrews.

Ocean Piners traveled miles to enjoy partying in Ocean City.

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OCES NAMES JANUARY STUDENTS OF THE MONTH Ocean City Elementary School honored its January Students of the Month on Jan. 30, with a luncheon and special cake sponsored by the Ocean City/Berlin Optimist Club. The students also received a T-shirt, pencil and a certificate. Pictured, in first row from left, are first-graders Jasmine Gooch, Nevaeh Wilgis, Natasha Vazquez, Zane Koch, Joshua Myrick and Rowan Wilkins; in second row, second-graders Julianna Johnston, Julisa Torres-Tress, Sophia Krasner, Dalton Bunting and Vance Jenkins; in third row, third-graders Abigail Greenwood, Grant Gursky, Bahar Yucel, Marina Bryan and Natalie Brushmiller; and in back row, fourth-graders Anthony Rozaieski, Eric Berry, Dulce Lopez-Moreno and C.C. Lizas. Missing from photo are third-grader Grace Cropper and fourth-graders Lydia Woodley and Brittyn Lyra Leonard.

SILVER BAND HONORS Stephen Decatur Middle School eighth-graders Emma Leo, left, and Lauren Paulsen participated in the Virginia Tech Junior Honor Band’s prestigious Silver Band last month. More than 150 schools from seven states participated in the annual event, held on the college campus.

Leo, who plays the mallets, and Paulsen (flute) were recommended for this honor by their SDMS Band Director Peter Mundrick.

TECH FEST WINNER Worcester County Public Schools Assistant Superintendent Lou Taylor poses with Showell Elementary School student Brooke Berquist after she received three silver ribbons for photography during the annual Worcester County Technology Festival. The event featured more than 500 entries, which included photography, video, multi-media and online presentations.

100TH DAY OF SCHOOL

TOP CHESS PLAYERS RECOGNIZED Young chess players competed in the 2013 Chess Tournament last weekend at the Wicomico County Youth and Civic Center in Salisbury. Earning top awards in the Elementary Division competition were, from left, Alexander Emmert of Salisbury, second place; Joseph Schwartz of Eden, third place; and Pranay Sanwal of Lewes, Del., first. Emmert, from Salisbury Christian School, is the son of Drs. Jeffrey and Elizabeth Emmert; Schwartz from Worcester Prep, is the son of Drs. Joseph and Carrie Schwartz; and Sanwal from Worcester Prep, is the son of Drs. Pankaj and Vibha Sanwal.

Students in Grace Mitchell’s pre-kindergarten class at Ocean City Elementary School, above, show their spirit by dressing in costumes that represent the number 100. (At left) Students in Sarah Tilghman’s fourth-grade class at Ocean City Elementary School also dressed up on the 100th day of school.

Pictured, from left, are Morgan Davis, CC Lizas and Emily Tilghman.

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